CRIME OF PASSION.
VOTING WOMAN STRANGEI.D. AWFUL HAMPSTEAD CRIME, LONDON, Sept. 21. At the inquest on Beryl Thornton, ivged 21, who was found, strangled, under a tree in the newly-opened public park at Kenwood, Hampstead, a verdict was returned that her nephew, Alfred Ivopst'h (IS), a piano-maker, was her murderer. Mrs. Thornton's husband gave evidence that they were married in India. His wife’s father was an Englishman, and her mother a Eurasian. His wife had never previously been absent at night time, and they had lived together happilv. When he awoke, finding his wife was absent, he fed their baby himself. Kopsch’s father, in evidence, said he had repeatedly warned his sou against association with a married woman, but ffis son replied: “I love her.” Alfred Kopsch surrendered to the police, and made a confession, in which lie said: “She asked me to strangle her when she was asleep. We lay down at 10 o’clock, and T. strangled her, when, apparently she was asleep, at two o’clock in the morning, first pressing my thumb into her neck, and then double-knotting my necktie round it. She is in trouble, and it is my fault.”
A doctor, in evidence, contradicted Kopsch’s statement regarding deceased’s condition.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 October 1925, Page 7
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