Murder of a Woman.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 89, 15 December 1913, Page 5

Murder of a Woman.

BLUDGEONED TO DEATH. A YOUNG MAN ARRESTED. [By Electbio Telegraph—Copyright] [Umiku Press Association j Loudon, December 12.

The body of the /woman who was found in the Ship Canal at Liverpool.. tied with ropes and enclosed in a sac*., has been identified as that.of Christina Biadiield, sister of a well-known business man. it is supposed she was outraged prior to her murder. . jt yoUtht'ul employee of her brother's arm has been detained.

Miss Bradfield was aged 35, and was manageres of her mother's tarpaulin works. She was accustomed to wait at the office until closing. Two young packers on Wednesday also remained. One has been arrested and the other, George Hunter, is missing.

The police surmise that Miss Brad- 1 field, when preparing to leave, was stunned with a club and brutally bludgeoned to death. In their hurry the murderers thrust her umbrella with the body into a sack and wheeled it in a hand-cart three-quarters ot a nine through crowded streets to a canal. Despite the fact that it was weighted with two-iron bars, the sack floated ana the body was jambed in the lock gates, otherwise probably it would have been swept out to sea.

The hand-cart and bludgeon have since been found. A conisderable sum of money is missing.

A PACKER CONFESSES. London, December 12. Samuel Eltoff, a packer, has been remanded for a week on the charge of having murdered Miss Bradfield. He confessed that he wheeled Miss Bradfield's body to the canal.

THEORY OF THE CRIME. STATEMENT BY ELTOFF. (Received 11.55 a.m.) i London, December 14. Miss Bradfield took a lively interest in Sumner, who was a man of powerful physique. His lodging-house Keeper states that he had long scratches on both cheeks on Wednesday. The pplice believe that Miss Bradfield was the victim of an attempted outrage and resistance led to her murder, which was committed in a storeroom where stacks of tarpaulins deafened her screams. Eltoff states that Sumner asked him to thow the sack in the canal and he was unaware of the nature of the con r teivts. l; < '•■'<■