SHOREDITCH TRAGEDY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1972, 31 January 1914, Page 5

SHOREDITCH TRAGEDY.

tlB IKQUEST CONCLUDED, VERDICf OF WILFUL BIURDE& Bγ Megraftli— Aessctotlon-^OoDfiFlßbi kOFldon, January 20. Tho inquest was resumed on' the sevon-year-oki boy who wa-s fmind strangled niulev iho seat of a. rnilwny camatco at ftliorctlitcli, and ,who Wng identified is Williftirs, sen of John Siurelilicid, a news vundofj ivko.lieroically captured Stoplieii Titys on. SViiti'in* W 27, 1012, wiioii StatchlicU was severely wounded. John White, si commercial traveller, gfu-o pvidemee that ho saw Starchfiold. a-jul tim boy at tho Ga.m<lcn Totf-n fita-tio-n about 2 o'cloclc on Jauuar,v 8. . St-nrcbfidd (Jrainaticaliy txc'aimed: "It's a damned Hoi" The; Coroner, in sttiAming up, said ■thero wits no cvidonco tl.iat tlio father had hiSicd tlio boh. The jury -returned i vordicfc of wilful murder against tho father.

FURTHER DETAfLS. BTAROBFIEL& ARRESTJiD. (Uec. January 30, 10.50 -mftu) London, January W-. 'At tho intj-iicst on tjio boy Btarohfieltf, Barry, a frjmid of tiro boy's father, giivo ovidoHea on oath that ho was in bed nt 2.30 on, tho ar'tertjsosn of tlio murder. Mrs. Sta-rehfteld (recillcd.) affiruwj that sl-jo saw Barry in tilio etreot at 12.30 and , told tii.o landlady, who confirmed tho statement. When tho faUior denied W-Mte's accusation, Barry also jumped up, cryiup out, "It's a lie, it might havo been. -''i H tlotiMo." Tito Coroner, in summing up, suit-l Micro was iio <"\'idciico against anyone, tiscept tho father. After tho vertSiet, Mrs. 'Stnrohfiold coltafised, sobbing pitosusly.. The luiS'. , handj when arrested, displayed no .euvd* timi. Ho served in tlio South African War. Me luui 20s. weekly fmm tli.u "Uarncgio Hero Fuiid" al'iftr tho Titus Affair. !

On September 87, 1:012, aii Armenian tailor luuned Stephen Tiitis wont into live Irar of tlie Hoifo Slwe liolol, Tottenham Court Head, tendon, and iirftil ..« re* volver, killing Jjiss 'I'owora, tiro rnhiiager-" ess, and wounding n btvi'inaid, KiisJiini; out of the Itoiot, ho shot anil fieswly. wbuirtietl a wan, .niit ; l two ether mcn» Joij! RtarcfcDeld nwl 'riioiuns Jolme, Won aho shot and froundotl, the Jatter l':i : tall,y, wlii.lo seizing mid ilclaining Titus unt'il tJvo arrival of tlie joUct'. On Kovembw 10 Titus was taiid giiiliy <si' niwrdjn , , %ut Wα? dcelaiixl to Ijft insnao-. H« was ori!pm(l to be conftntfii during Hi-S Majesty's pleasure. StarchficM liviijg ajm-rt froiii his wife. When nrrestel for Wio mttrtltf* ofkis son., lio save a saiisfactoit ae. count ■<>( liis movements, mid was Imsml. Last week ii sensation was causeA at tho itwiiiest on a wemnn jicsitivoly iitentifyhig"tho feiy's fftUvcr as (ho Mraii ffhoiit slie Siw lortdinff * bay by the liand near Cainden ToAvn station. Tho ftiVlici' inferjßctcdi "I.fs a He!'"' A. Bignalmnt,' garo evidence that hn Siur a niMi knpcW ing over a child in the train on the jif« tcni«j:i tlw imirder was coromitted. }!« identificfi). Stafclifield as the man. I'he engine-driver stated that he *aw a man apparently tying:. a psyrtd m the compartment wlicro the bod.y was foin.nl T!"' in'odicdl (jvidonco wis to tho Viffont that fiu> child was probably >.Stffwiglod in n ; icßtoHns γ-iftsitioii. Several .wi(iiessos save , «videnco that Starclifteld's father was iii '\, j)od at his lodffinjfs on tho aftonoon of tho nnirder. T'hcir oriiJoueo conflicts concerning details;