The Times (London)
19 March 1891
(Before MR.. SOMES)
Edwin Colocitt, 26, who was found guilty last
sessions of stabbing young women in the streets of
Lambeth and Clapham, was brought up for sentence. Dr.
Gilbert, of Holloway Prison, said he had examined the
prisoner, and found him to be of very weak intellect,
but did not consider him insane. Mr. Lowe, who
appeared for the prisoner, referred to a case, now
being investigated, in which another person was
charged with the commission of exactly similar
offenses in the same neighborhood; and in view of the
fact that the defence of the prisoner at his trial was
that a mistake had been made as to his identity, he
asked the Court to postpone sentence until the result
of those proceedings was known. Mr. Somes accordingly
granted a further postponement.
