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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 4

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YOUNG GIRL’S FATE. CRIPPLE CHARGED. LONDON, Jan. 9. At the inquest into the death of Polly Walker, the pretty 17-year-old cashier who was found strangled, with one of her own stockings, on her bed at Camden Town on New Year’s Day, Frank Walker, a brother of the murdered girl, gave evidence that his mother had befriended Eugene de Vers (who has been arrested). “He pleaded that ho was a cripple, down and out ; 'without a friend in tho world,” said Walker. “We were heart and soul sorry for him, and thought it would he a Christian action to help him. I treated him like a brother. Polly was merely friendly. My mother and I discussed the advisability of asking him to go elsewhere, but decided first to lot him enjoy Christmas with us.” Walker, on the evening of New Year’s Day, received a registered envelope, bearing do Vere’s writing, and containing pawn tickets for a watch and chain, ring and 1 racelet belonging to his mother, Polly, and himself. Ho then found that cupboards had been broken open and that other jewellery was missing. The envelope contained also a ticket for a bundle, deposited at a railway cloakroom consisting of Walker’s mackintosh and de Vere’s coat. The latter was spotted with blood. Mrs Lukey, who lives in the iiat below de Vere’s, gave evidence that she hoard a scream about 9 a.nr. on New Year’s Day, and then hurried, limping footsteps resembling de Vere’s descending the stairs.