BOY STRANGLED.
SENSATION AT INQUEST. . FATHER ENDEAVOURS TO ESTABLISH AN ALIBI. (By Cable.—Pimo Association.—Copyright) JDONDON, January 22. A sensation was caused at the inquest on the boy William Starchfield, whose body was found under the seat of a train on January 9th, by a woman who positively identified the boy's father as the man who was leading him by the hand near Camden Town station. Tho father interjected: "It's a Hβ!' , A signalman gave evidence that he saw a man kneeling over a child in the train on tho afternoon on which the murder was- committed, and identified the body of William Starchfield as-that of the child he saw. . An engine-driver gave evidence that ho saw- a man apparently tying up a parcel fn the compartment where the body was found. * Medical evidence was to tho effect that the child had probably been strangled in a kneeling position. Several witnesses that Starchfield senior was in bed at his lodgings on the afternoon of the murder. ' Their evidence in conflict as regards certain details.
The inquest" was adjourned for further evidence concerning the father's movements.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14883, 24 January 1914, Page 11
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