A BUTCHER’S DEATH
CONFLICTING EVIDENCE. PREVIOUS VERSION DOUBTED. Press Association—By Telegraph*—Copyright. LONDON, December 31. (Received Jan. 2, at, 7.6 p.m.) Conflicting evidence was given at the inquest on Hymen Coleman, a butcher's assistant, at Hackney, who was stabbed in the breast at his home after a visit to a kinema theatre. Coleman while dying in hospital informed the police that hi 3 four : year-old son picked un a. table knife and stabbed him, saying, "This is how the man did it in the pictures." .Coleman's brother gave evidence that deceased told him hia wife stabbed him after a quarrel, but he would not accuse her as there would be no one left to take care of the two children. * Dr Spilsbury (Home Office expert) said in his "evidence that it was very doubtful if the wound was inflicted by a child, bub it was just possible.—A. ana N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18443, 3 January 1922, Page 7
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