THE CLAPHAM MURDER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1051, 14 February 1911, Page 5

THE CLAPHAM MURDER.

• NO' PERJURY CHARGE. 0 ■ Oy Telegraph-jFrcss Ass-iilatlon-Copyright. . . . London, February 12. :■ • In connection with the: murder of the French Joiy Bcr.on at Claphapi Common, Eva Flitterman. (the lover of Morrison, charged with the crime) will not be prosecuted for perjury.' ,

Mr. Beron, a man of fifty, lived on tho rents of some small houses he owned in tho East End of London, and ho and his brother David occupied an unpretentious room on tho second floor of a block of buildings in Jubileo Street, Stepney. Beron collected'his own rents in the East End.' and did odd jobs in the repairing of his houses, and his tenants speak of him as a kindly.and considerato landlord. He was quiet and tactiturn, and rarely spoke to anyone but his brother. At eleven o'clock on Saturday night, December 31, it is stated that he was seen in the East End. Somewhere about three o'clock on Now Year's morning, at a dark and lonely'spot on Clapliam Common, carefully selected, the quiet-mannered, - silent landlord had been, ferociously dono to death. On his face were found cuts on'either cheek roughly in tho shape of tho letter "S," Tho man's skull had been fractured, and ho had been stabbed in the body three times. ,

The witness i Flitterman stated in her evidence that she saw the man Morrison; accused of tho murder, wearing a fivepound piece ns a pendant attached to his watchchain; Other evidonce showed that the murdered man Beron had worn a five-pound pieoe. The girl afterwards withdrew her statement,, and tho magistrate said hi> must consider whether "a charge of perjury should be laid against her.