THE CANAL MURDER
PRISONERS ON TRIAL. PHOTOGRAPH IN SUMNER'S ROOMS. WHAT THE POLICE DISCOVERED. •■■'•, By Telesraph—Presj Assoctatlon-Copyrieht London, February 3. The trial . of George Sumner and Samuel Eltoft, packers, for the murder of/Miss Christina Bradfield, whoso body was found in a sack in the Liverpool Canal in Decembor last, commenced today. ' . The Court was crowded. Tho police gavo evidence that ttey had discovered photographs in iiwincr's rooms picturing women in a drawn tip position corresponding to that in which Miss Bradfield's body was when. Sound. Evidence given by the prosecution's witnesses suggested, that the murderer had hidden in a celj.ir which communicated with the outside. , A. sensation was caused when Sumner went into the witness-box. He gavo ovidenco that Miss Bradfield had always been kind to him, and that he hid respected her. He saw a man hit her with a marlinspike, and the man had threatened him with a revolver. v The further hearing of tho rase was adjourned. ' '
Miss Christina Bradfield. 35 years of age, was the manageress of her mother's tarpaulin works. Sne wns accustomed to wait at the office until closing. Two younff packers on the nißht of the tragedy' also remained. One was arrested, and the other, Gcorpe Sumner, was mjssin?. ■ The murderers thrust her. body jnto a sack and wheeled it in a hand-cart,three-ciuar-ters of a mile through crowded streets to the catial.-, I>espite the fnct that it woe weiffhted" with two iron bars, the sack floated, aud the body became jammed in the. Hock Ratfts, otherwise it would have been swept out to sen. A_ considerable amount of money-wns missing. Samuel EHnft, a nacVer. 'confessed that lie wheeled Miss Bradfield's body to the canal.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1976, 5 February 1914, Page 5
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281THE CANAL MURDER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1976, 5 February 1914, Page 5
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