RAILWAY MYSTERY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 637, 24 January 1914, Page 5

RAILWAY MYSTERY.

SENSATION AT INQUEST. By Telegraph,.—Press Association. —CopyTignt London, Thursday. A sensation was caused at the inquest on the boy Starchfield (whose dead body was found in a railway carriage) when a woman in the course of her evidence positively identified the boy's father as the man who was leading the deceased by the hand near Camden Town station. The father interjected: "It's a lie." A signalman stated that he saw a man kneeling over a child in the train on the afternoon the murder was committed, and identified deceased as the child. An engine driver gave evidence to the effect that he saw a man apparently tying a parcel in the compartment where the body was found. Medical evidence was called to show that the child was probably strangled in a kneeling position. Several witnesses gave evidence to the effect that Starchfield's father was in bed at his lodgings on the afternoon of the murder, but there was a conflict concerning details The inquest was adjourned for further evidence as to the father's movements.