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The case of the tell-tale love letters,

the murder of Percy Thompson by his wife's young lover.

London, England, Thursday, October 5th, 1922.

An extraordinary case of a murder in an Ilford Street by some person unknown, and unseen even by the victim's wife who was with him at the time, was reported yesterday.

Mr. Percy Thompson, a shipbroker's clerk in an office in London Wall,

had been with his wife to a theater in London,

and they were returning about midnight on Tuesday to their home in Kensington Gardens,

Ilford, when the husband, after staggering

for some yards, fell to the ground bleeding profusely. Neighbors were awakened by the wife's

screams, and Dr. Maudsley, who lives close to the scene of the tragedy, was called to the man.

Recounting what he found, the doctor said, quote,

I went out and along Belgrave Road saw a man on the pavement.

He was in a sitting position propped up against the wall of a house.

He had no hat on and his head had fallen forward.

By the light of a match, blood appeared to be coming

from his mouth. He was dead. His wife was standing near him and seemed to be very distressed

and hysterical and I could get no clear account of what had happened from her. The police were sent for,

unquote. The body was removed to a mortuary

where it was found to have been terribly stabbed in the neck, arm, and elsewhere. Mrs. Thompson,

who was in too hysterical a condition to make any statement, was taken to her home, and later, accompanied by relatives, went to the police station. In taken to her home and later accompanied by relatives went to the police

station. In answer to questions there, she said that she saw no one attack her husband. Throughout

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