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Evening Star, Issue 14495, 21 February 1911, Page 6

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Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 20. (Received February 21, at 8.5 a.m.) Hutchison, who was wanted by the police on a charge of poisoning his father and a guest, was run to earth in tho islo of Guernsey. He committed suicide by taking poison the moment ho was arrested. MURDER AND SUICIDE. LONDON, February 20. (Received February 21, at 10.5 a.m.) Hutchison was suspected because a bottle of arsenic was missing from his employer’s shop on the day of the fatal feast. He also carried the coffee mini the kitchen to the guests in the dining room. It is understood that he was suffering from some form of dementia, and was apparently jealous of the deceased guest’s attention to a woman. Ho was several days in Jersey (another island) under the name of Harrison, and was growing a beard, during which timo he stayed indoors. Ho stated that ho belonged to Ilford. Tho sergeant who was pursuing him found him upstairs in a boarding-houso at Guernsey. Hutchison drew a pliial of prussic acid from his pocket and swallowed the contents. The sergeant seized the phial, but not in time to prevent Hutchison swallowing tho contents. Death was almost immediate.