The Coroner's Inquest on the Hoxtou murders terminated on Friday
in a verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown. Not a trace of evidence of any kind has yet been discovered by the police, and it is probable that the case will be added to the long list of unexplained crimes. Even the motive of the murderer is still a mystery, the solitary clue in that direction being a state- ment by Mrs. Squires to a glazier who mended a sash for her that she dreaded being murdered by her neighbours. That would imply that she was murdered for some reason the existence of which she knew, but there is nothing to corroborate or to dis- prove this theory. The Coroner seems to have thought it part of his duty to suspect everybody who ever spoke to the old woman, but suspicions questions addressed to her grandson, the waiter Tamplin, and the mariner nicknamed Yorkey, elicited nothing -except the impossibility of their knowing anything about it.
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