Case of the Hooded Man
1912 MURDER IN ENGLAND
The Case of the Hooded Man; Case of the hooded man; Florence Seymour; Eastbourne Murder; John Williams (died 1913)
R v Williams (1913) 8 Cr App R 133 (known as the Case of the Hooded Man and the Eastbourne Murder) was a 1912 murder in England that took its name from the hood the defendant, John Williams, wore when travelling to and from court. After the murder of a police inspector in Eastbourne, with no witnesses and little forensic evidence, Edgar Power, a former medical student, told the police that his friend John Williams had committed the murder.