Robert William Moore

Robert Moore murdered Edward Watson 27 who he shot in a plantation at Fewston on 31 May 1953.

They had gone shooting together. Robert Moore said he shot a phesant and then Edward Watson grabbed the gun and said 'you have caught me'. Robert Moore then said that he started pulling on the barrel and the gun went off 3 or 4 times. He said then that he decided to bury him and carried him off the a wood and went he was putting him into a hole he felt money in Edward Watson's pockets which he took thinking that he might need to leave the country.