MYSTERIOUS MURDER,

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18275, 16 December 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)

MYSTERIOUS MURDER,

AN UNSEEN ASSAILANT.

An extraordinary case of a murder in an Hford Street by some person unknown —and unseen even by the victim's wife, who was with him at the time—was reported recently.

Mr. Porcy Thompson, a shipbroker's clerk in an office in London Wall, had been with his wife to a theatre in London, and thoy were returning about midnight to their home in Kensington Gardens, Ilford, when the husband, after staggering for some yards, fell to the ground, bleeding profusely. Neighbours were awakened by the wife's screams and Dr. Maudsley, who lives close to the scene of the tragedy, was called to the man.

Recounting What he found, the doctor said: "I went out, a;id along Belgrave Road saw a man on the pavement. Ho was in a sitting position propped up against the wall of a house. He had no hat on, and his head had fallen forward. By the light of a match, blood appeared to be coining from his mouth. He was dead. His wife was standing near him, and seemed to be very distressed and hysterical, and I could get no clear account of what had happened from her. The police were sent for." The body was removed to tl mortuary, where it was found to have been terribly stabbed in the neck, arm, and elsewhere. Mrs. Thompson, who was in too hystorical a condition to make any statement, was taken to her home, and later, accompanied by relatives, went to the police station. In answer to questions there, she said that she saw no one attack her husband.