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PRISON CELL SUICIDE

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It was disclosed at an Oxford inquest recently that Sydney Thorpe, a 33-years-old carpenter, of Masbro road, West Kensington, W., had committed suicide in prison cell by drugging himself with morphine while awaiting trial on remand.

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JUNE 17 1933.

fed how he, Thorpe, and Kennedy were arrested at the racecourse and taken to Aylesbury, ****

Thorpe arrived at the polios atation ahead of us," he said." "I saw, him arguing with a sergeant. There was a scuffle, and two police. men hold Thorpe. They released him and he was charged....

"I did not nee Thorpe, kleked,

neither did I see him on the floor

Cassay, said he did not recollect naked him about the kicking. answering Mrs. Thorpe when sho

Frank Konnedy, a bookmaker, of Firth-gardens. Fulham, S.W., said, "I told Mrs. Thorpe that her hus-

Police Station, and she got_n_bit_ annoyed."

Evidence was given that after, Neither Kennedy nor Cassay an-band was not kicked at Aylesbury. hia death n allt was discovered.. In: swored.--- the lining of his overcoat, showing that the drug may have been con cealed in the cont.

by

"I then showed my husband'a letter, and Cassey said to Kennedy, It is true. You saw, the polico A remarkabla letter written kick Thorpe when he was down, Thorpe in the coll, alleging that didn't you?" Kennedy shrugged his while on remand in custody he had shoulders." received a "tanning" from the police before being charged, was

also read.

LETTER TO WIDOW. Twice previously the inquest had been adjourned by the Oxford coro

Mr. H. F. Galpin._,- A ner,

while verdict of Suicide

Tem- porarily Insane was returned.

presenting the Prison Commission

In reply to Mr. R. P. Lewis, re- ers, Mrs. Thorpe said, "My hus band never told me he was being followed by the police... He was not addicted to drugs, and never nald he was tired of life.".

Continuing, ho.nld he saw no blows struck on either side.

SCAR ABOVE EYE.. "When Mrs. Thorpe asked me if or if he was marked by the tanning, I thought he had done himaolf in,-| I merely mentioned he had a smali scar above, his eyes."

Sergeant Tobin, stationed at Wendover, Buckinghamshire, gave Mr. Galpin then read the follow evidence of arresting Thorpe and ing extracts from a message writ-two other men. ten by Thorpe on a prison #inte:-

Thorpe was arrested with two other men at Aylesbury on. April "In this enlightened ago with the

"Thorpe," he said, "refused to take his cont off or to turn out his

10 and charged with being a Bus-brand of Cain, hounded, threatened, property. I told him I would re- move his clothes unless he did so pected person and being on a race-billed, beaten, I am just a

Bus-himself. course to commit a felony. The picious.. case was adjourned and the other

$25.

"I am snatched from my family, "I advanced to take hold of his two men were released on ball of the breadwinner, as Horod snatch.overcoat when he struck a sharp

ed the firstborn 2,000 years ago.

¡right-hand blow towards my face. |:

It landed on my nose. "Please read glass back. Dear- est, I am giving a break."

"I closed with Thorpe, who hit me in the jaw. He also put his Written on the back of the arms round my knees and tried to mirror in the cell was:

throw me.

He refused to loosen his hold, so I struck him once in the face.

As Thrope could not find suretics, he was taken to Oxford prison for n, week. He was found unconscious in his cell on April 12 and died the, same day.

.

The following extructs were read "My one crime was to marry a from a letter which Mrs. Winifred young girl of 17. My wife now 23. Thorpe, the widow, said she re-Three young children worship me. ceived from her husband on April Always was loyal and true. I've

left her with sixponce.""

12:-

"I am here [in prison] for noth. Dr. Roche Lynch, the Home ing at all. I had a fow words at Office analyst, said he found about the station, and refused to turn my three grains of morphine in pockets out till they told me the Thorpo's stomach. Death was duo charge. I got a tanning, but the to morphine polsoning. sergeant also received one back in the jaw with interest.

"What is the good of my living? Keep this letter, it may be the last."

Mrs. Thorpe said that she asked a man whom she knew by sight to get in touch with two other men, Kennedy and Cassey. They called at her house on April 13. She went on:

AN ARGUMENT,

Mr. Galpin: If that quantity were hidden in the lining of a coat it would be difficult to discover7- Yes.

BECAME QUIET.

Thorpe then became quiet and gave no moro trouble."

Replying to Mr. Francis Walsh, representing Thorpe's relatives, Sergeant Tobin said he considered it absolutely necessary to strike Thorpe, and it was entirely untrue to say that Thorpe was kicked twice. He made no complaint of the treatment.

Mr. Galpin: You didn't knock him out? No.

The point was Important, said

Inspector R. Read, of Aylesbury; Mr. Galpin, In view of the fact said that the blow struck by the that the police had searched sergeant WAS. necessary. He Thorpe both at Aylesbury and at searched Thorpe's clothing, but did Oxford.

not find any polson. Thorpo had

"I asked Kennedy, 'Was my hus- band kicked while lying down in James Cassey, of Lonsdale-road, no visitors while at Aylesbury and the Aylesbury Police Station? Barnes, S.W., an engineer, describ-

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