THE TIMES.
7th APRIL, 1910.
PRISONER’S SUICIDE AT THE OLD BAILEY
In the Central Criminal Court buildings, Old Bailey, one of the prisoners who had been awaiting removal to Brixton Prison at the close of yesterday’s proceedings was found strangled in his cell. His name is Sasson Shalom Elazar, his age 23, and he is described as a cutter and a Turkish subject. He was under committal from the Mansion House Police Court on an indictment charging him with shooting with intent to murder his brother Nissim Shalom Elazar-a clerk at the offices of Messrs. David Sassoon, in King William Street, City. In the morning an application had been made by Mr. E. Lionel Benson, with whom was Mr. St. John Hutchinson, that the trial should be adjourned until next sessions, and the application was granted. It was stated then that the medical opinion was that the injured man would recover and the defence desired the case to stand over until he was able to be called as a witness. Some of the prisoner's relatives were on their way to this country from the East, and their evidence would be important on the prisoner's behalf should a defence of insanity be raised. The prisoner was not in Court at the time of the application, but in a cell underneath the building.
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