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The Green Bicycle Case was a murder investigation and trial over the shooting of a young woman named Bella Wright in Little Stretton, near Leicester, England on 5 July 1919. Wright was killed by a bullet wound to the head. Earlier that evening she had been seen with a man on a green bicycle. Ronald Vivian Light was tried for her death but acquitted.〔Donahue (2007), ''passim.''〕 Ronald Light, 34 years old at the time, was a World War I veteran who had returned from the war with shell shock. He did not voluntarily come forth in response to wanted posters for the man on the green bicycle who had been riding with Wright on the evening she was killed, and he made an attempt to dispose of the bicycle. Once arrested he admitted to being with her shortly before her death, but denied killing her. He was successfully defended in court by Sir Edward Marshall-Hall KC.〔Donahue (2007), p. 68–69.〕 Author C. Wendy East in a book entitled ''The Green Bicycle Murder'' (1993) concluded that Light did, indeed, murder Bella Wright.〔Donahue (2007), p. 70.〕 In a 1930 book, ''The Green Bicycle Case'' H.R. Wakefield came to the opposite conclusion.〔Donahue (2007), pp. 73–74.〕 ==Bella Wright== Annie Bella Wright, born 1897, was the eldest of seven children of an illiterate agricultural labourer and his wife. She lived in a thatched cottage in Stoughton, four miles outside Leicester, under what Bill Donahue describes as "essentially feudal conditions". She attended school until the age of 12, then worked as a domestic servant before taking a factory job in Bates' Rubber Mill, about five miles from home.〔Donahue (2007), p. 71.〕 At the time of her death she had been "keeping company" with Royal Navy stoker Archie Ward, and had at least one other suitor.〔 Wright may have met Light prior to the night of the murder. She had told her mother of an officer who had fallen in love with her and who may have been Light, although he denied it in court.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Green Bicycle Case」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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