CAMDEN TOWN MURDER

Star (Christchurch), 20 December 1907, Page 2

CAMDEN TOWN MURDER

« — — — > ANOTHER UNSOLVED MYSTERY, • XJaite4 Pies* Associattoit— By Eleotri* ' (Received December 20, T. 40 aja»X LONDON, December 19; >v Newspaper commeirts on the Wootf case are agreed on the utterly erpalal aspects of tihe case. The intepeafc e&ie^ centred in the method? «f detecting criminals. The prosecution ia this in* stance was based ©a * doubtful idemfcfcf fication. There was no suggestion m a motive far the crime. ' ! The "Daily Telegraph" states fhrti the prosecution offered praeticajly a| evidence which was nob either tv&tti quately rebutted or did not ai nm. l^*ff from people whose character was onedt W grave reproach. The paper adcj# that another unsolved mystery has beeqj added to London's disquietingly long! list. i (A young railway man named Be*w tram Shaw, living at 29 St Paul's Road. Camden Town, London, returned hon** on September 12 after a night £ou¥&es to the north, and found the doors of th# house locked. On forcing an entrance, he found a young woman named Emflgi Dimmock, who was living Jn the sam* house, lying dead in bed, with her head almost severed from her body. 3sift body was lying face downwards, para* pletely covered up by the bed-clothaiJ 1 The bed-clothing had been hacked akotti in an extraordinary manner. The deaq woman, who was twenty-three years oi age, was tall and fair, and of very afcj tractive appearance. Shaw found that! the drawers and cupboards in the room had been ransacked, and a number of valuables had been stolen. The dea<s girl's watch, chain and ringe weng also missing. When arrested Wood a<J* mitted that he wrote a post-card xaaAk '\ ing an appointment with decease^ tiwl nights before the tragedy, but lie de* nied all knowledge of the murder, an 4 stated that he would plead an filjibi^