Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-04-11 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

TILE INQVANT.  Dr. King Houchm, deputy-coroner for East London, opened the inquest on Monday. Jacob Myers, the first witness, an umbrella-case maker, of Coborn•road, Bow, said that the deceased man Levy was his stepfather, and until last December his partner. There hail been no grievance whatever between him and Levy, nor did he think that anyone would treat the old man unkindly. They had had no dispute with their workpcople. Mary Clark, a widow, of Sidney-street, Mile End, identified the female victim as her adopted daughter, a married woman living apart from het husband. There had never been a quarrel between , the deceased woman and her husband, and they separated because the man was out of work. William 1V hittaker, a boy of seven, said that on Saturday morning his mother sent him to Levy's house with a message, lie knocked several times, but no one eame. The second time he saw a man, with a brown check cap, looking over the wall adjoining Varden-street. He was a pale nian with a moustsche. He afterwards saw a man jump from the roof, but this was not the man he saw looking over the wall. William Sella a tailor, said that about halfpast I on Sat unlay aft ClllOOll AIM Lawton informed him that she had been knocking for some time at No. 31, and could not get any answer. He obtained a pair ot steps, and on looking over the partition wall saw a man moving about in the corridor of Mr. Levy's house. He had a beard, and was wearing a brown cap like the one produced. He was looking down, and appeared to be doing something with his hands. He called to the man, " What are you doing there ?" and the man then isibbed " away from the window and hid himself. A few minutes later he saw the man's face at the window, and again shouted, " What are you doing there ? " The man straightened himself and walked away. He at once put someone to watch the front door and himself went into Varden Street. While watching there he saw the same 111311 looking over the wall. He again cried out, and the man disappeared. He indentitied the man Who jumped from the roof as the man he had seen in the lavatory and looking over the wall. He had never seen the man before.  Policeman Walter Atkinson spoke to finding the body of Mr. Levy in a crouching position, with the throat cut. In company with the other policeman he searched the house, starting from the basement, and on reaching the top floor fr.nt room discovered the body of the woman lying on the floor by the bedside. There were signs of a desperate struggle. Police-conktable Henry Richardson said that he was walking down Commercial-road, off duty, with another policeman, Wensley, at half-past 1 on Saturday afternoon, when some lads came up to him and said, "There's been a murder in Turnerstreet." He at once went there, and found a large and excited crowd outside the house. Some people shouted, "There's a man on the roof," and he saw a man's back over the parapet. He and Wensley entered the house, and on reaching the top floor front room, where the body of the woman was lying, he saw a hole in the ceiling just large enough for a man to get through. He took off his coat and belt and got through the hole, but had to crawl along the rafters before he could get on the roof. There he saw a man about 15 feet from him in the gutter between the double roof of the house going towards the parapet. He called to Wensley, "Look out, he's going." The next moment the man sprang on to the parapet and flung himself into the street. Police-constable Frederick Wensley corroborated. Medical evidence was then given that Levy's death was due to haunorrhage from a wound in the throat accentuated by the fracture of the ribs and the woman's to a tremendous blow on the head, quite possibly given with the hammer found by the ' police. Dr. Charles Le Sage, of High-street, Stepney, who examined the man who had jumped from the roof, described the nature of his injuries. There were bloodstains on his clothing. The man was very seriously injured. Sub-divisional Inspector Drew said that he found on the man in question several valuable articles of jewellery. The man had not yet been identified. The t.oroner said that this was all the evidence , he proposed to call for the present, and an adjourn' ment was made for a week.