A SCULPTOR'S CRIME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 7

A SCULPTOR'S CRIME.

MURDER OF POLICE INSPECTOR. -;by TilcnraDh—Pre'«B London, December 15. At the trial'of John Williams, a sculptor,, charged witbthe .murder of Police Inspector Walls, who was shot while attempting to prevent a burglary at Countess Sztaray's house in Eastbourne, the woman, Florence Seymour, who lived with tho accused, recanted her statements that her lover was'wearing a Trilby hat, and also that the incidents stated previously to have occurred on the beach, happened on the eighth, not the ninth. Sho had made those statements because the detectives had threatened to accuse her. of the murder. Williams's brother testified that the accused had indignantly Repudiated the crime, and said that he had an idea that it was a gang who did it. He was afraid of boing suspected, owing to his association with the gang. Power,' Williams's gave evidence against the prisoner. The Judge disapprovingly commented on Power playing the informer whilst retaining Williams's and Seymour's confidence. The evidence in which the charge waj based was the discovery of a hat aliped to belong to Williams, and also of a revolver he was seen to bury on the beach.

SENTENCED TO DEATH. . London, December 16. Williami has been found guilty, and sentenced to death. ,