![]() Was the Christmas Eve shopper the killer? Why was such an unusual weapon used? Who was the woman in the shop? I don't know, and I never asked my brother what he knew but Mrs Cobban has done an excellent job of researching the case and bringing together the known facts. The killer was never caught, the local villagers are sensitive about the case, even the murder weapon has not been established (the author, the victim's great-niece, favours an "Air cane", personally I feel a stone bow, or bullet firing crossbow is the only weapon that fits the facts). Later I was to learn that the murder was one of the great cases of the day. That Christmas Eve, however, a well dressed and spoken stranger came into the shop and bought every luxury item we had and asked for it to be delivered to a woman who certainly looked like the one pointed out to me before. At 9 years of age I knew nothing of the case and the woman looked so ordinary that I forgot the comment fairly soon. ![]() ![]() One day, I and my brother were helping him in the shop when my brother leaned over and whispered "That's the woman involved in the Bashall Eaves murder". Sixty years ago my father had a corner shop in Salford. ![]()
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