THE CAULFIELD MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1924, Page 2

THE CAULFIELD MURDER

AN ARREST Made. NKWSAOKN I SI'SPE( TED. VUSTUj.HAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION, .M KI.BOI'KXE. .Sept. IS. The Tiickeiman inquest ended sensationally. insulting in Thomas Ja me.' Cheshire, a newsagent, of Caulfield, aged years, being lomniltled iol trial mi a charge of murdering Iren: Tiiekenna n. Bail was allowed in Jj.iilllfb Cheshire was one of the persons mentioned \e.sUrday. whom the police brought before- the ( -irouer as witnesses. The sister ol the dead gill gave ovitletice that she and lieue frequently visited ('III shire’s shop to liny papers. A tramway driver testified that, he saw a man and a girl, whom lie identified a< Cheshire and Irene Tut Uermnn. alight front his tram at St. Hilda oil the day Dene Tucker'mail disa - 1 eared.

Dele live Pi'gntt detailed a visit he had paid to Cheshire's shop, at the hack of which there was a cubicle w here Cheshire sli ;t. On a rug he found bails to which lie drew Cheshire's until e. and also a quantity <! rote similar to that found round Irene Tuck,o man's In dv. Cheshire had admitted knowing Irene. Inti he denied that she ever took charge cf his shop. He made a statement regarding his movement, on the day the girl disappeared. to the efi'ei t- that he was away from his shop for only a short pencil, l ater at the Detective's Oflhe be (Detective Piggott) bad informed Cheshire that he had been identified by two non. with the girl nil the day of her disappearance, away Imm the shop. He told him that lie would he sub-peetiaed to the Coroner's ( ourt and lie warned him m 1.-to do anything foolish in the meantime. Cheshire had icplied: "I will not. 1 will not face it. I am innocent."

Before committal. Clieshire. on the advice of his counsel declined to give cvideir e at the present stage of the case.