TWO MURDERS

Evening Star, Issue 22383, 6 July 1936, Page 12

TWO MURDERS

SON'S CONFESSION TO FATHER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 5. (Received July 6, at 11 a.m.) The father of Field told the * News of the World ’ that his sou had confessed to him that he murdered Norah Upchurch in an empty shop in Soho in 1931, after which he wrote a note to nfs father: “i killed Norah Upchurch. Jt got me down. lam ending it by gas.” Field’s attempt at suicide failed. He later confessed to the police, was tried and acquitted. His father, though knowing that his son was guilty, aided the defence and kept the note a secret until to-day. He says his son also confessed to the murder of Mrs Sutton. “ I only wish my Sony had succeeded in committing suicide. Mrs Sutton would have been alive, and I and his mother would have been saved the agony of knowing that our son had been hanged.” [A message which appeared on April 20 stated: Frederick Herbert Charles Field, aged 32, an aircraftsman belonging to the Air Force, was charged with the murder of Mrs Beatrice Sutton, who was found suffocated with pillows over her head, in a house at Claphara a fortnight ago. Mrs Sutton separated from her husband 20 years ago. . It is alleged that, Field made the following statement:—“l never saw her before and was not in the least ill-intentioned toward her. but I murdered her because I wanted to murder someone. I was fed up at the Jack of money, and had not the guts to take my own life. 1 knew by doing this 1 would put myself on the spot.” It is alleged m his confession that Field . quarrelled with a womap friend and bought poison for the purpose of committing suicide. He wandered about with _the_ poison, lacking the courage to drink it. Field was later sentenced to death and hanged.]