MURDER MYSTERY.
ASSAILANT EXCHANGES BOOTS WITH VICTIM. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBJOBT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE . ASSOCIATION.) ' (Received June Sth, 5.5 p.m.); LONDON,' June 8. A strnng murder mystery is reported in a big Mayfair mansion. Edward Rix, butler to.Sir George Lloyd, the new High Commissioner of Egypt, was found dead in a basement bedroom with his bead battered in by a 'hatchet. Several things were stolen. There was evidence of a severe struggle, yet six servants in. the house heard 'nothing. The murderer took off his boots and went away in Rix's boots, ieaying his own. , • The police broadcast a message to Arthur Bishop, aged 17, formerly "boots" in the house, asking him to assist their 'enquiries.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18403, 9 June 1925, Page 9
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