3-066-031 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Brighton Railway Tragedy, 1881. Murder of Frederick Isaac Gold. '1. Room in the cottage at Horley, from which the train was seen, with two men struggling in a carriage; 2. Train passing the cottages at Horley; 3. Entrance to the Balcombe tunnel; 4. Spot where Mr. Gold's dead body was found in the Balcombe tunnel; 5. Cathcart-road, Wallington, where Lefroy lodged...The carriage bore several marks of pistol-shots...the dead body of Mr. Gold was found lying on the railroad, near the end of the Balcombe tunnel, with a pistol wound behind the ear, with many cuts and gashes about the face and hands, and with the skull fractured, apparently by falling out of the train...There are cottages at Horley, from which the train can be seen passing; and a woman there says that she saw two persons struggling with each other in one of the carriages...No pistol has been found, but a knife, smeared with blood, was found lying near Mr. Gold's dead body...The watch and chain found in Lefroy's boot or shoe were those which had belonged to Mr. Gold...the police have been looking about for Lefroy all over the country, and have arrested more than one person by mistake'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.