Who Killed Julia Wallace? - New Evidence

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New Testimony: More exceptionally unknown than new. However a very persistent witness went to the police multiple times, claiming that he had seen Amy Wallace and a man he identified as William together on Scotland Road at 20:10 on the night of the murder.

The man identified as William had asked for directions to the "landing stage" (this would be at the docks). The witness told them they were going the wrong way and offered to put them on the tram. The man identified as William turned to the woman who seemed very afraid and said "we. must. not. go. on. that. car."

The witness found this very suspicious and reported it to the police after hearing about the murder. He was not called back, but returned to the police several times, and wrote a letter which is contained in the Home Office's records.

During the trial, witness rang up the CID in Dale Street twice and asked if his testimony could be of any use.

After conviction, while the trial was pending, witness saw a low res photo of William in the Empire News, and identified it as being the man he had seen. He requested from the police a higher quality photograph or a police lineup, but was told "don't worry, we have Julia Wallace's husband."

When the appeal was allowed, he again went to the police.

After reading the John Bull articles, which contained a number of photos, witness said he was certain William was the man he had seen and that the woman was his sister-in-law (Amy Wallace). He then went to the police once again and was told to wait. Later he wrote "Result. Julia Wallace's husband died and the police state in the Empire News that they never had any other clue to the murder and although such a long time had elapsed they would open the case again."

Later that day he went to the police once again and they took a fresh statement from the witness. An inspector later came and saw him and said to forget it since Julia Wallace's husband was dead.

The man then wrote a letter to the Secretary of State, who wrote back that they could find no grounds for taking action in the matter.

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Note that William gave up his hunt and left after the newsagent's and caught a tram at roughly 8 PM on his described route home, although as noted, nobody had seen him to confirm he had been on those trams on his way back.

According to modern day Google Maps, Scotland Road is about 5 miles away, 15 minutes by car, but I do not know the layout of roads at that time, etc.

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Also note that the first suspect the police hunted and eventually gave up on (see point #1 in the original post) took a cab at around 7 PM and stopped at Kingsley Road and went off down one of the side streets. From here to Scotland Yard is 3 miles. At an average walking pace it is an hour walk, which would allow that person to have arrived at Scotland Road at about 8 PM.

From Scotland Road to Wolverton Street would be about 35 to 40 minutes at an average walking pace (it's around 1.7 miles), which cuts through the Rupert Lane Recreation Ground.

From Scotland Road to the landing stage which I presume to be Princes Dock, although again this is modern landscapes, it is about 1 mile, 20 minutes at an average walking pace.

From Scotland Road to the landing stage and then to Wolverton Street, you're looking at 1 hour and 30 minutes. If the man and woman parted ways however you could surmise one went to the dock and the other somewhere else. However - if neither went to Wolverton Street then of course the timing to get to Wolverton Street is irrelevant. It would only matter if William was the man identified, that he would not be able to get to the dock and then return home, all by foot, in time.

[WallaceWackedHer]

Update: Apparently the Munro from the newspaper article is a playwright born in Scotland. The article was published in 1939. However, it is possible the two are related, as it is strange that man claims intimate knowledge, and discusses that William already knew he was dying (something I don't think was known at the time?).

2) I made an appeal and somebody posted to me that they are currently writing a book, and that they are sure of who the killer is, and that it is someone "rarely mentioned who was known to the Wallaces, especially to Julia". Because I had already named Parry, the neighbors, and anyone else I can think of that this may relate to, I think they may be discussing either Dr. Curwen or someone like Amy Dennis... In regards to Dr. Curwen, it is known that it was said Julia had visited Dr. Curwen two times on the day before the murder. Dr. Curwen said she visited him only once to pay a bill...

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I was going to wait longer to update this thread after uncovering more new evidence and testimony to make a longer post, but I thought it was important to give the information about Munro, as it appears to clearly be George Munro the playwright not Hector... Although as said, they could still be related and he does seem to have knowledge I don't think was known to people.

[WallaceWackedHer]

I am currently in contact with Merseyside police and researching this case intently. I will only post completely new or very little known evidence here, as anyone who cares about the case still already knows the currently established facts.

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1. The strange man in a taxi, as brought up by Sherlock Houses in a previous thread. At about 7 on the night of a murder near Wolverton Street, a Wallace-looking man took a taxi ride down to Sefton park, after asking the taxi driver anxiously "you won't kill me will you?" then apologizing stating he is in a nervous state. This man was well-spoken and about 50 years of age, 5'11 with rimmed glasses, a darkish overcoat, hair just starting to turn grey, and carrying an umbrella. Interestingly, Sydney Green described the towering Wallace as a mere 5'10. He was dropped off about a 6 minute walk from the first tram Wallace was allegedly sighted on at Smithdown Road.

2. At 10 PM on the night of a killing a man named Daniel O'Mara committed suicide about 30 minutes away from the Wallace home after threatening onlookers with an iron bar, setting his baby alight, and jumping headfirst out of a window. Likely unrelated.

3. New testimony: A woman came forward saying that at the time of the murder a woman approached her in Menlove Gardens West, asking for directions to Menlove Gardens East around 15.00 (before reading of the crime in the Echo at just after 4 PM that day). Being very familiar with the area, the witness told this other woman that there was definitely no such road. However the woman insisted that there was and claimed that she had actually been there herself... The witness claims that during the trial she was able to connect this woman to Amy Wallace of Ullet Road (Amy of course, being one of the only people who knew with certainty that William was going on the trip that night).

4. At the end of July 1992, John Barratt from Garston Library, held a public meeting at 2.30 PM on a Tuesday at Rawdon Library (Breck Road), claiming that he had unearthed new information. Details of this meeting cannot be found by myself.

5. An M.P. named Bob Parry (according to Gannon - no relation to Richard Gordon Parry), wrote to Merseyside chief-constable Ken Oxford after Wilkes' radio program aired, asking that he release any information that will clear Parry's name. Bob Parry tabled six questions at the house of commons demanding a fresh look at the Wallace case after the radio program aired, but apparently was refused.

6. New testimony: "Mrs. Wallace was one of the most peaceful and loveable of women. In fact her kindness was perhaps her only fault. Her husband, my brother-in-law, was perhaps nervous of her being all alone at home at night, as they had no family, and had told her more than once not to open the door to strangers." - Amy Wallace, claiming that Julia was in the habit of opening the door to strangers (assume so, given William had to apparently tell her more than once not to do it).

7. New testimony: Given by a "George Munro" to the newspapers... According to Mr. Munro, after being released William "spoke no confidence" to anyone but himself (Munro) and his brother until at least some days after when Munro left him at some place in the Lake District where he was born. Munro goes on to slate what he sarcastically refers to as "expert" criminologists, saying their deductions and recreations are "fantastical". He claims that in those days Wallace reviewed the facts of the crime to him, and that the version of events differed greatly from any theories of the criminologists - but that he was not prepared to tell anyone about Wallace's story of the trial or the alleged murder.

However, he did add one fact for the "benefit of the criminologists", saying that William already knew he was dying when he was arrested, and also knew this when he was sentenced and when he was freed. Apparently Wallace had told him this fact on the day of his release after he'd introduced him to three dramatic critics, at his own request, under a pseudonym. Beside this he added "Are you there Swaff?". In final parenthesis he added:

"Lest there be mistake, the exception mentioned among the murder rewrite gang, is Tennyson Jesse".

This was in reference to an earlier line which said: "As for those 'experts' who rewrite famous crimes, for them, with one exception, the donkey stall."

8. Apparently William was remarkably calm and played the violin in his cell.

9. Tit-Bits magazine (http://www.tilleysvintagemagazines.c...oice=MAGAZINES) contained testimony from William Herbert Wallace. I believe this is separate from the ghost-written John Bull articles. In this magazine, he recalled how five times since before he had even been forced to move back to England and married Julia, he had been told by doctors that he only had a few months to live.

10. New testimony: from Ann Miller given to newspapers: "I have never really met a nicer man than Mr. Wallace. He came into the house and passed some jovial remarks. He asked me the time, I looked at the clock and it was a quarter to six. It was a constant habit of his to ask the time, and he would always look down at his own watch after he asked the time." Ann Miller was Wallace's last call on the day of the murder.

11. New testimony: Detective Bailey's son claimed that he had always been led to believe that his father had arrested William, and that his father said while taking him into custody, Wallace remarked: "Well Bailey, you have arrested me. Now you have to prove I did it."

12. In early 1930 Liverpool, a gang of youths were arrested for breaking into stores. They made use of skeleton keys. A boy named Clough, on his arrest, had in his possession a notebook on which "Our Gang" was written, and a list of names. He also had a number of files which had been used to make 22 skeleton keys, as well as a flash lamp. They had also broken into the home of a gang member twice because he said he was going to leave the gang.

13. In December 1930, Liverpool, two unnamed fourteen year old boys (the same age as Alan Close) were arrested for breaking into homes using a duplicate key and stealing from the gas meters. One of the meters stolen from was at one of the boy's parents' homes, the other at the home of a neighbor on the same street.

14. Inspector Gold who believes Wallace guilty, refused to discuss the crime even with his best friends. He regards "any secrets he holds concerning the crime as official and impersonal."

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That is my research for today, 5 new testimonies unearthed (one connected to Amy Wallace). I will post more research here as it is uncovered.



Rare photo of William Herbert Wallace (left) and brother Joseph Wallace (right).