LONDON TAXI-CAB MURDER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17218, 8 December 1923, Page 12

LONDON TAXI-CAB MURDER.

ACCUSED FIT TO PLEAD. By Telegraph—Prees Association— Copy rig** Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 8. 9.35 a m.) LONDON. December 7. On an application for the jury to trv whether Iggulden was insane and unfit to plead, the jury found that ho was able to stand his trial. The gaol doctor said that he was of the opinion that Iggulden waa insane. A taxi cab murder in London was revealed on the night of March 16. when a man drove to the Fulham police station and made a statement, whereupon tho police found a woman inside the taxi-cab, dead, with her throat cut and u razor near the body. The woman, whoso mime was Ethel Howard, was also known as Ethel Ireland. She was a widow with two children, a girl of eight and a boy of five years. She lived at Shepherd’s Bush. One report, stated that tho woman oamo from New* Zealand two years ago, but another stated that she lived in Australia, where her husband died. She was a handsome woman, aged thirty. The man detained was George Iggulden. aged twenty-five, of no fixed employment since being demobilised. The couple were to have been married at a registry office on the following day. They met c?n the dav of the crime, and had tea in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly, and afterwards drove off in a taxi-cab.