Railway Murder

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 182, 31 January 1914, Page 5

Railway Murder

COIiONKR AX I) ,M'I!Y DIFFER. ! VKIIDICT AdAIXST Till; FATHER. Jjy Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, January 29. At tlic imjuest on tln; liov lield, who was found dead in a. railway carriage, John White, a commercial traU'ller, gave evidence that lie saw Ktarclilield and the boy on the Camberdown station about two o'clock on January 8. Starchlield dramatically exclaimed: "It's a damned lie!" The coroner, in sitmni injr «I'. KillJ tliero was no evidence that the father killed his son. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the fa,ther. THE ALIBI EVIDKXCE. MRS. STARCIJFIISU) COI.I.APSES. Received 30, 11.3 p.m. London, January 30. At the Stiirchtiekl inquest, Barry, a friend of the father, gave evidence tlnit both were abed at 2.30 on the afternoon of the murder. Mrs. Starcbfield, re-called, affirmed that she saw Barry in the street at 12.30, and told the landlady, who conlirnied the statement. When the father denied White's accusation, liarry also jumped up, crying: "It's a lie! It might have been his double!" The coroner, in summing up, said there was no evidence against anyone ( except the father. After the verdict Mrs. Starcbfield collapsed, sobbing piteously. Her husband was arrested, but did not display any emotion. He served in the South African" war, and had 20s weekly from the Carnegie Hero Fund.