THE TAXI CAB MURDER

Southland Times, Issue 19100, 19 November 1923, Page 5

THE TAXI CAB MURDER

ACCUSED REMANDED. PITIFUL PLIGHT OF VICTIM’S CHILDREN. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) - LONDON, November 16. Iggulden was remanded on the charge of murdering Ethel Howard. The police gave evidence that Iggulden, upon arrival at the police • station, made a voluntary signed statement, after washing his blood-stained hands. The statement would be produced later. The Daily Chronicle says that Mrs Howard’s two pretty children, aged eight and five years respectively, are now alone in the world. They do not know anything of the murder, and have only been told that their mother met with an accident. [A previous cable stated that 7 on the night of November 14 a man drove to the Fulham Police Station and made a statement, whereupon the police found a woman inside the taxi dead with her throat cut and a razor nearby. The woman was named Ethel How’ard, and was also known as Ethel Ireland. She was a widow with two children, a girl of eight and a boy of five. She lived at Shepherd’s Bush. One report states she came from New Zealand two years ago. Another states she comes from Australia, w’here her husband died. She was a handsome woman aged 30 years. The man detained is George iggulden, 25 years of age, of no fixed employment since demobilised. The couple were to have been married at a registry office to-day. They met the day before and had tea in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly and afterwards drove off in a taxi-cab.]