THE WELLINGTON SENSATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 230, 23 November 1900, Page 4

THE WELLINGTON SENSATION.

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16 was repo t?d in " The Times" o' the 12th Jaouwy, 1894, that at the resumption of the iaqaeßb on the preview day evidence wm given a* to the movements ot Arthur Blatch, for whose arrest a warrant had been issued j on a charge of wilful murder. Inspect sr Summons stated, as the result of inquiries he had made, thin Blatch had been living at 94 Greai Titehfield street, London, with Eliz.bach Basb, formerly a domestic servant at Colchester, When the polica made in--qaiiiaa at that address two dajß. aftes «the murder, the landlady, Mrs Lincoln, Mated that Blatch and the woman left there a month previously. This statement she repeated at six subsequent intjrviews; bat eventually she admitted it was fel*, and that Blatch only ltffc'oa Sunday, December 10, th, and the went away aext day alane. fhe Inspector traced Bash to an address in Harrow road, where she was feamd en December 27th, lodgiag with aietaale friend. In het possession wwe found a photographic camera »nl stand and an overcoat belonging to Blatch, and other articles, including a blaek and white cloth eip. Josiah Nunn, a porter ia Mr. Welch's employ, idebtfiic? the bleek and white cap as his property He left it upon the countsr when the pHiee was locked np on the night his master was murdered. JKlii bsth' Lfauoln said that Arthur Blstsh and Elfeabeth Rash,'' -whom she soppes.d to be his wife, had been lodging witl her about a year. On Saturday, December 9th, Blatch, who had been away, returned. He paid her the arrears of rent, and told her he had mortgaged seme property, aod that bis friends were searching for him to put him in an asylum, on the gtound that he -was insane. He asked her if anybody came after him, to say he left a month ago. Elizabeth Sarah Bash,'a single wonpra, said that Blatch left her the first week in November. ' He was then almost peanilees, and owed rent. He stated be was gciog to Colchester. He returned home on December ith wearing a new saib of clothes, and ke took the cap produced from .his coat pocket. Witness ackad him if he booght the new clothes at Mr. Welch's, ana he turned very whitr, and said he had cot been there. J Having pud th? arrears of rent to the landlaoy, he undressed and palhd off his fl iiuurl shirt. Witness noticed th 6 wristbands had been torn oft. He replied I essuse they were dirty. He said he shoud burn the shirt, and witness asked him to let her hive it for a house flannel, hoc he refused and pat his shirt oa tha 6 e aid burnt it. He gave witness £l, mi ttok out of his pockets two or three pickets of sovereign?. He counted cm £BO. On the Sunday before Blvtch lifo ehs heard Mrs L'ncoln tell bim an iaspecter had te *n, and he at once took - his bags of money at.d hurtiedly left. Dr. Beaker proved fifed in > a blood ■tain on the of BlatcL'a overcoat. Tae jury returned a verdict of Wilful minder against Arthur FWtwh.'r