HACKNEY HORROR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1913, Page 7

HACKNEY HORROR

EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. * Sydney Sun Special Cable Service. LONDON, 2nd August. At the inquest upon the bodies of the three victims of the Hackney murder, Phoebe Smith gave evidence that she resided at Robertson's. In reply to a ?[Uery on 28th June, Robertson, the ather of the children, said : "All right. A man fetched the children this morn ing." He stated in the afternoon that the children had gone to the Salvation Army Home. He declared that he did not stop in the house because the landlord (had not repaired it. Robertson was cruel to his children, and quarrelled with his wife. He could not tolerate children crying. The witness identified the blankets in which the children were wrapped as Robertson's property. The inquest has been adjourned. [Recently the body of Robertson's nine- months-old * child was found under a loose board in the top of his house in Hackney. In one of the lower rooms the bodies of two children, twins, aged 2i years, were found behind a cellar wall. Robertson had occupied the rooms with his wife and children six weeks previously. The wife was removed to an infirmary owing to a breakdown, and Robertson departed, telling a neighbour that the children had been placed rnder the care of friends.]