THE HACKNEY MURDER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 76, 4 August 1913, Page 2

THE HACKNEY MURDER.

EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. i By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] LUnited Press Association.] London, August 2. At the inquest into the Hackney murder, Phoebe Smith gave evidence chat she had resided with the Robertson’s. In reply to a query on June 28, Robertson said it was all right, and a man would fetch the children that morning. He stated in the afternoon that they had gone to the Salvation Army. He declared that he was not stopping in the house, because the landlord had not repaired it. Witness added that Robertson was cruel to the children and quarrelled with his wife. He had said that he could not tolerate the children crying. Witness identified the blankets in' which the bodies of the children wtere wrapped as Robertson’s property. The inquiry was adjourned. A London cablegram, dated July 26th, stated: A tenant in the top floor of a house at Hackney complained of an offensive smell. An inspection disclosed the body of a nine-months-old child under a loose board in one of the lower rooms, and the bodies of two children, twins, aged two-and-a-half years, behind the cellar wall. A young man with a wooden leg, named Frederick Robertson, had occupied the rooms with his wife and children. iSirr weeks ago the wife was removed to an infirmary, owing to a breakdown in health. Robertson departed, telling a neighbour that the children had been placed in the care of friends. It is stated that be was worried over his wife’s illness.