STOREDITCH MURDER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11878, 14 January 1914, Page 5

STOREDITCH MURDER.

BOY SEEN WITH A FOEEIGNEE. P •:« Associnrion—Klrcrric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Wednesday, at 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. A driver and a conductor of an omnibus identified William Starchfield, who, in company with a foreigner, boarded a bus at Kentishtown an hour before his body was found.

A cablegram on Monday stated that the seveu-year-old boy, who was found strangled under the seat of a railway carriage at Bhoreditch, had been identified as William, the son of John Starchfield, a newsvendor, who heroically captured Stephen Titus in September, 1912, and who wag severely wounded during the struggle on that occasion. A message from London published o.n October Ist, 1912, said: —"An Armenian named Stephen Titus, residing at a hotel ; n Tottersham Court Road ran amok, and shot two barmaids, one dead. Seeing a barmaid speaking to a man he commenced an altercation. He shot tho managrees of the hotel dead and seriously wounded the barmaid. He reloaded the revolver in the street an:i held the crowd at bay. He shot a newsboy and two other persona before he was captured after a severe struggle. ,.