MURDER AND SUICIDE

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 9

MURDER AND SUICIDE

MIDNIGHT TRAIN CASE

SECOND SHOT EXPLAINED

(Received July 23, 10.30 a.m.) SOUTHAMPTON, July 22. At the inquest on John Keyes, aged 28, a.purser, and Emily Jarvis, aged 24, who were discovered in a'midnight train on July .8, each with two bullet wounds over the heart, a verdict was returned that Keyes murdered Miss Jarvis and then committed suicide.

A retired detective-inspector gave evidence of a previous case in which the contraction of a finger on the trigger of a revolver caused a second shot to be fired.

An automatic pistol was found in the compartment in which the bodies were discovered, also an; undischarged cartridge which did not fit the automatic. The theory advanced at the opening of the inquest that the case might be one of murder by a third person caused some surprise. The Coroner said it was most extraordinary that there should be two bullet wounds in each case. "The shock of having a-bullat in the heart must be awful," he said, "and I can't see how a man would have the power to pull the trigger a second time." The possibility of a person entering the train at Waterloo and shooting the couple might be a mare's nest, but it was necessary to adjourn the inquiries.