SHOREDITCH MYSTERY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 20, 23 January 1914, Page 6

SHOREDITCH MYSTERY.

CONFLICTING EVIDENCE.

{By Electric Telegraph- Copyright [United Press Association.] (Received 1.35. a.m.) London, January 22. Several witnesses gave evidence that Starchfield’s father was in bed at his lodgings on the afternoon of the murder.

Their evidence conflicted concerning details.

The inquest has been adjourned for further evidence concerning the father’s movements.

THE FATHER’S INTERJECTION.

IT’S A LIE!”

{Received 11.35 a.m.) London, January 22

A sensation was caused at tlio inquest on the boy William Starch field, by a woman positively identifying the boy’s father as the man who was loading him by the hand near Cambertown station.

The father interjected: “ft’s a lie.” The signalman gave evidence that he saw a man kneeling over a child in a train on the afternoon the murder was committed. He identified Starchfield as the child.

An engine-driver gave evidence that he saw a man apparently tying a parcel. in the compartment where the boy was found.

Medical evidence was that the child was probabjy strangled in a kneeling position.

[A cablegram on the 11th stated that a boy named Starchtield had been found strangled in a railway train during a run from one station to another of three minutes.]