THE HACKNEY TRAGEDY
DECEASED’S STATEMENT ACCEPTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ' LONDON, January 4. At the inquest on Hyman Coleman the jury accepted the deceased’s dying statement regarding his child stabbing him, and returned a verdict of “Accidental death.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Conflicting evidence woe given at the inquest on Hyman 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' his four-year-old sop picked up 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 his wife stabbed him after a. quarrel, but he would not accuse her as there would bo 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, but it was just possible.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18446, 6 January 1922, Page 5
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