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Major Murray, having been shot by Mr Roberts in the latter's rooms in London, retaliates by attacking Roberts with a beer bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1861. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
On 12 July 1861, Major Murray was invited by Mr J. Roberts, a solicitor, to visit his office at Northumberland Chambers, 16 Northumberland Street, Strand, London. Roberts shot Murray, who resisted and struck Roberts with fire tongs and beer bottles. Both men were taken to Charing Cross Hospital nearby (The times, loc. cit.)
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