Stone-throwing Mystery.
Brentford Police Baffled.
Is it a ghost or an unbalanced human being? the police of Brentford are asking themselves, following a mysterious epidemic of stone-throwing which has already accounted for many panes of glass in the windows of Messrs. Jupp, hay merchants, in High Street, Brentford.
For the past month stones have descended on the hay merchants’ premises, but the police cannot discover the culprit responsible for the damage. One night ten stalwart policemen hid near the premises, determined to put an end to the mystery, but the stone attack continued harder than ever. On Sunday night no fewer than nine windows were broken, but in spite of a search the stone-thrower could not be found.
Last night another shower of stones descended on the windows of the building, although there was in attendance a large force of plain-clothes policemen, who, search where they would, could not solve the mystery. Two heavy stones fell in the High Street last night at Half-acre Road near two men who had a narrow escape from severe injury.
The police are determined to put an end to this strange mystery of the ghostly stone-thrower.
The Manchester Guardian, 23rd September 1930.