GIRL SURVIVES PACT
MURDER CHARGE PREFERRED. A coat with two handkerchiefs tied to two of its buttonholes was produced at an inquest at Yarmouth on Tom Greenhalgh Sutcliffe (34), boot repairer, of Burnley. His body was taken from the harbour. The widow said that she came to the conclusion that he had gone away with a Burnley girl, Edith Alston. She received a registered letter from her husband, containing £7, with the message, “Good-bye till we meet again.” The deputy coroner said that owing to the information he had received from the police he should adjourn the inquest for a fortnight. A week later, Edith Alston, who was said to have admitted jumping into [the river at Yarmouth with Sutcliffe, was remanded on a charge of attempting to drown herself.
Detective Tuttle stated that the girl who was rescued, said they were tied together with handkerchiefs.
When Edith Alston, who is sixteen, again appeared in Court, the chief coni ('stable stated that, having communicated with the Director of Public Prosecutions, he was instructed to lay a charge of murder against prisoner Detective Tuttle said that when charged with the murder of Sutcliffe the girl made no reply.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 August 1928, Page 8
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