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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1936.
HOW VANITY SPOILED MAYFAIR,
"PERFECT MURDER'
It Was So Easy, Field Said
"I Beat Them All” "It Was Unfortunate For Norah, But There It Is"
EX-AIRCRAFTMAN FREDERICK FIELD, convicted at
the Old Bailey last month of strangling a woman. named Sutton, in a Clapham flat-to which he had con- fessed-appealed, in vain, against the sentence of death which had been passed on him.
Three years ago he had confessed to an almost identical crime-the strangling of Norah Upchurch in Soho--had been tried, also at the Old Bailey, on that charge. But he recanted his confession, was acquitted.
It is now passible to tell, for the first time, the strange story of what Field himself described to a newspaper correspondent, just before he gave himself up, as “the perfect crime.”
(By A Special Correspondent)
NORAIL UPCHURCH wan fozad | viny as a child. “Can I have a drink dead in an empty shop in New (of water?” bi plemled. He swafluw-d Compton-st put ja FANT. That it in gulp.
When he had calmed himself he "Well, I killed Norah Up eburch,"
Find was strongly susperled of killing her was widely known at the time of the Inquest.
None
kness th better thate Field biniself. The coroneg sub- jected him to IL examination.
very
said:
And alis was the story he then tok. In part in response to questions, that mainly impromptu;-- severe" "I did not know the girl until the evening of the murder. I had no rea- Jon why sould kill her--that is to He came cut of the ordeal inno-jray, no" pwijleular reason. ent, In law. His reaction wan remarkable, Almest physically exhausted by the strain of long hours in the witness box, he w718 nevertheless amazingly alert men- tally.
find the place again. There was also In gold ring.
"That also I threw away, I did not want to keep anything - which might destroy my success; my sole motive was to prove my theory that a perfect murder' could be done by a man with suficient nervo and braku.
"I have no teeling of remorse, Of course, it was unfortunate for Norah Upchurch that she should have been the one I dropped on, but there it be. The one satisfac- tion I had at the time was that I had done what I and made up my mind to do.
JOINED IN TALK
"I knew I could beat the pollae, and i I did it. As time went on that entis. faction renined. My 1-
dia.
the murder in my presence, and joined in, but never once did
it seem to occur to any one that I those more about than other
purple,
"The position, however, was 3341 quite what I could have wished. You see, although i had done л "perfect murder" no one but myself. wa mware of the fret,
That is the whole story, and now I am prepared to take the '93- | serjitenees, na fed up with life, t have never had a break. I have al ways been the underdog.
have confice trefore it was too late! "Had any one been arrested I should save him. I should, however, buye watched the proceedings with, more and more satisfetion as the evidence accumulated, to show that I had, in
fret, completely beaten the police."
that Norah Upchurch's handbag was It may be recalled that the fret
missing was regarded as evidence of "I had made up my mind to kill robbery on the motive for the murder, some one to prove a theory, and it Field's greatest difficulty was to ex was chance that eitose the victim.plain what he had done with the And had many arguments with keys of the shop he should have res workmates whether such a thing as turned to the agents
a perfect crime' was possible,
le discussed the ease with me it could not, belleve me, kill a cat or "I became an obsession with me, with lawyer's ability, aloust with a bird. Crurity Is not one of my faults; what followed sprang from the challenge in my mind.
a lawyer's impartiality. As spoke of the carmer's court is face lit up with a smile of triumph.
"I had been working at the shop “Ah," ie, Jaughed. "they thought where the girl's body was found. I they had got ine, but I have beaten should have returned the keys to the them all-you, all of them the agents, but with my idea hit mind I coroner, Superintendent. Corvatsch kept them.
"I
4
ALIBI PASSED
He did this by saying he handed them to a nuns he did not know, but Hence, a man in custody on a miner was able to describe. By a co-incl-
|charge appeared to answer the des
eription.
Field was taken to see the pri- Kaner, and identified him as the man, he had a satisfactory alibi. Prolonged search by the police at In charge of the ingolries), and
the spot where Field said he threw gil the rest of the police! I know;
went home after work, and, the big failed to produce results, but they were trying to put it on mea pal, I changed my suit and returned might well explain the fact,
telling my wife I was going out, with lapse of time and weather effects but I was too much for them all." to the West End. I walked about ahimself assisted in the search, ap He knew the possibility of a chargabit, and noticed a young woman whose parently most sincere in his effort remained, but fe seemed ການແກ Iname we know now to be Norah Up-to locate the bag, the finding of which
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without nerves, ready, even eager, to church. match his brains as often as neces-
sary with the best that Justice could the doorway of the shop, On the "I spoke to her, and we went into produce. Innocent or guilty of the munter, Field's outstanding trait was of whom the girl said 'Good night.'
way we passial two constables, to one his vanity.
A mat of little education, he dis- We had hardly got inside before played a cleverness and as statenesst my hands round her throat. pasessed by few in his class.
"She went down without any strug Ac- cording to the story he told me, it gle or sound. She was dead. I was was his confidence in his ability to surprised to find how easily I had
killed her
Field
would, of course, have been vital evidence. Once again he exhibited those sigas saw Field after his nequittal.
of triumph which had struck me at the first interview. He. bft an un- pleasant impression on me, and a feeling, which I expressed at the time, that hore would be heard of him.
WANTED A JOB
He wrote me in November 1933,
beat Scotland-yard. that led him to picked up her bag and left the asking me to help him to a' job." #fi
strangle Norah Upchurch
SURPRISE CALL
shop "quite apenly, Everything had don't mind what sort of work I do" happened very quickly-all in a very he said, "but by trade I am an elec few minutes. I went home as far ndrician." I heard no more of him, un- It was in October 1941 that I first Morden by tube, and there caught a. til his arrest for the Clapham crime. saw Field, and I heard nothing more number 88 bus.
In a letter he wrote from Brixton of him until July 25, 1933, when he called on me unexpectedly. He was on and walked the rest of the way
"After going a little distance, I got before he was sent for trial he said: no longer the self-assured mun re-home. On the way I opened the girls | membered.
handbag. I found four pounds in Hots
A police, witness in the case of Mrs, Sutton, for whose murder he is now doomed to hang, told the court that when Field was making his con- fession in that case his eyes were not normal, that he seemed to be wanting to say something he had on his mind. That was how he appeared to me on the morning he called. A big, physically strong man, he was as ners
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“When I came here I had made up 'my mind to put my hands up and give in but during the past couple of days it has occurred to me that the other side are not fighting on the level, so have decided to make a Bght for it, and although things nuy look hopeless at the moment good a chance as last time." I can assure you that I stand as
(put these in my pocket, al- though, mind you, robbery was not my motive in any sense. Passing the Dollar Estale, near Sution, I put the shop keys in the bag, which
then threw into a ditel "Although it was a foggy night. Sutton is certain. But what of Nerah That he was guilty of killing Mrs. remember perfectly where I threw Upchurch? No one can tell except the bag. It was near a tree, which Field himself what was the real truth is a sort of landmark. I could easily behind the first confession.
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