Evening Express, 21st November, 1893.
The Bath Mystery.
Coroner Resumes His Inquiry into Elizabeth Luke’s Death.
The inquest was resumed at
Bathampton this morning on Elizabeth Luke, alias Wilkie, whose body was found
in a cave in September last.
Clara Thorne, a parlourmaid,
corroborated the statement of Arthur Coombs regarding his movements on the
Saturday and Sunday preceding August Bank Holiday, 1891, and also on the Bank
Holiday. Witness noticed that on those days he had a bad thumb.
Bessie Cole, dressmaker, said
Coombs had a bad hand the week before Bank Holiday. He told her it would
prevent him accompanying the Volunteers to camp.
Mrs Mary Coombs said she
remembered her son having his thumb bitten at the Liberal fete, in July, 1891.
She poultice the wound. On that Bank Holiday night her on took Miss Shepherd to
the theatre, and returned home about eleven o’clock. She was sure of the time,
because she always waited up for him.
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