CLAPHAM COMMON MURDER

Northern Advocate, 22 February 1911, Page 3

CLAPHAM COMMON MURDER

NO PERJURY CHARGE

THE STORY RE-TOLD

A recent cable message stated that, in connection with the murder of the French Jew Beron at Clapham Common, Eva Flitterman (the lover of Morrison, charged with the crime) would not be prosecuted for perjury.

Mr Beron, a man of fifty, lived on the rent of some small houses he owned in the East End of London, and he and his brother David occupied an unpretentious room on the second floor of a block of buildings in Jubilee Street, Stepney. Beron collected his own rents in the East End, and did odd jobs in the re . pairing of his houses, and his tenants speak of him as a kindly and considerate landlord. He was quiet and taciturn and rarely spoke to anyone but his brother. At eleven o'clock on Saturday night, Dec, 31, it is stai. 1 that he was seen in East End. , jmewhere about three o'clock en New Year's morning, at a dark and lonely spot on Clapham Common, carefully selected, the quitt-mannered, silent landlord had been ferociously done to death. On his face were found cuts on either cheek roughly in the shape of the letter "S." The man's skull had been fractured, and he had been blabbed in the body three times.

The witness Flitterman stated in her evidence that she saw the man Morrison, accused of the murder, wearing a five pound-piece as a pendant attached to his watchchain. Other evidence showed that the murdered man Beron had worn a five-pound piece. The girl afterwards withdrew her statement, and the magistrate said he must consider whcuier a charge of perjury should be km! against her.