STRANGE MURDER.
FATHER ACCUSES INFANT SON. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright London, Jan. 2. Evidence was given at an inquest on Hyman Coleman, a butcher’s assistant at Hackney, who was stabbed in the breast at his home after a visit to a einema. Coleman, while dying in hospital, informed the police that his four-year-old son picked up a table-knife, stabbed him, saying: “This is how the man did it in the pictures.” Coleman’s brother gave evidence that deceased told him his wife stabbed him after a quarrel, but he would not accuse her, as then there would be no one to take care of the two children.
Dr. Spilsbury, Home Office expert, said in evidence that it was very doubtful if the wound was inflicted by a child, but it was just possible.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1922, Page 5
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133STRANGE MURDER. Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1922, Page 5
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