MAYFAIR MURDER.
POLICE DETAIN SUSPECT. (BT CABLE—HtESS ASSOCIATION— COPTBIQHT.) (AtJSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, June 8. The police at Sevenoaks detained Arthur Bishop, in connexion with the murder of Edward Rix, butler to Sir George Lloyd, the new High Commissioner of Egypt, who was found dead in a basement bedroom with his head battered in by a hatchet." Bishop was recently living in a disused hut at Aldershot, where ho was charged with housebreaking, and pleaded hunger as an excuse. Bishop is a gloomy lad, and reads many detective stories A curious feature of the case is a message in boyish handwriting pencilled on a calendar hanging in Rix's room reading: "Many are tho roads by which God carries his own to Heaven."
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18404, 10 June 1925, Page 9
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124MAYFAIR MURDER. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18404, 10 June 1925, Page 9
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