Second Edition. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 85, 1 April 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

the motion for rejection.

(Bt Elkoteic TKiaroßAi-H— Copyuioht] [Onixkd i*BMB Amooiation. J (Received 12.45 p.m.) London March 31. Mr Long (Unionist) m moving the rejection or the Home Rule Bill, said V the discussion was really a sham. The Premier’s proposals wore made for the purpose of securing a party advantage, not from a desire for settlement. If the Government was unwilling to sacrifice the fruits of the Parliament Act which a general election would entail, let them' introduce an amending Bill. . . Sir Edward Grey said coercion ot Ulster could not arise before a general election. He did not think it possible *that any Government would coerce Ulster, but if there were sporadic outbursts, force must be used. If an attempt were made to establish provisional Government, the army must 1 he called upon. The proposed conversations between the Government and the Opposition should be resumed on the basis of establishing a Federal system for the whole country before the end of the six-year period.

LORD MORLEY’S POSITION.

(Received 12.45 p.m.) London, March 1. Lord Morley, in the Holise/df Lords, announced, he had not .resigned. If ■ Colonel Seely’s first resignation had v heen accepted his would followed. Larkin contests the East Fife seat - against'Mr Asquith. The Conservative candidate is doubtful if he will contest

THE STARCHFIELD MURDER.

i INTEREST IN THE TRIAL.

|JBY EtEOTMO TELWBAPH-CdPtBIGBT'I XUmt®» I >a * Bß AfWOOIATION. 1 (Received 12.45 p.m.) London, March 31. Extraordinary; , interest is being taken in the Starchfield trial at the Old Bailey. * ' . . , . ?' Mr Bodkin, prosecuting said the body had not been noticed during four and a T h*lf jtyppftE* .after, wit- - nesses’ alleged J ;ejto9initers,;.'iyith' the Starchfields over two hours previous- ■>. ly. ■ ' V The Crown’s theory was that the , jolting slowly dislodged the body. PThe defence’s cross-examination, suggests mistaken idenity, perhaps, as the result of newspaper photographs. -«

John Starchfield, the news-vendor charged with the murder of liis five-; v year-old son Willie by strangling him % ia a North London train, sat motionless in the dock at Old-street Police Court last mouth- while the case for the Crown against him was slowly built up. With a hand on each knee he stared straight in front of him, never'shifting his gaze from the Royal Arms over the magistrate’s chair. The theory put forward by Mr Bodkin (states the Daily News report of tho inquest), is that the child was murdered when the' train left GamTown on which com-j menced 'at Chalk Farm at 1.59, and that it made five journeys before the. hotly was discovered. Mr Margetts asked the guard * of"the train if he ' thought this possible,' find .Pett replied that he ip sa£, hut thought it was. ‘,1 5 . ,■« ■ fe ■ . . \\ f