The Times, September 29th, 1893.
The Bath Murder.
Arthur Stevenson Coombs was arrested in Bath yesterday and
charged with the wilful murder of Elsie Adelaide Luke, alias Wilkie, some time in August, 1891. Coombs, who is a
coachmaker’s apprentice, not quite out of his time, replied: - “I did not do
it.” He asked how they knew that the remains found in the cave were those of
his former sweetheart, and was told that Mrs Kerry had that day positively
identified the articles of linen found outside the cave bearing her name and
the fragment of linen, also marked with her name, adhering to the skeleton, as
being part of the clothing which Luke took with her when she left her
situation. The police are also in possession of further important information.
It is said that Coombs at one time walked out with Luke, but a coolness sprang
up between them, and the prisoner became engaged to another young woman, named
Sheppard. This so enraged Luke that on one or two occasions she assaulted
Sheppard, who was obliged to complain of her conduct to the police. The police
are now anxious to get into communication with the prisoner’s relatives, who
live in London, but up to the present they have not been discovered.
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