THE WHITEHALL TRAGEDY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2601, 25 October 1915, Page 6

THE WHITEHALL TRAGEDY

CLUE. TO IDENTIFICATION. Br Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrlffht (Rcc. October 24, 8.30 p.m.) Melbourne, October 23. With respect to the Whitehall tragedy detectives have discovered a Perth Savings Bank book with the name Albert Edward Glenwood, corresponding with the initials on the man's clothing.

The bodies of a young unidentified man and woman wero discovered in a bedroom at Whitehall Chambers, where they had been resident for some weeks. They had not been seen for some days, and the odour I'rom the room led to tho forcing of the door. • A peculiar feature of the case was that while the body of the woman was badly decomposed, and liad apparently been dead for a week, the man had only been dead a couple of days. A glass at the -bedside contained dregs, supposed to be poison. Tho couple had registered as Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, but the man's clothes bore Perth tags, marked with the initials, "A.E.G."

The anniversary of the Petono Baptist Sunday School was celebrated yesterday, good audionces attending each service. Jn tho morning the Kev. W. H. Hinton conducted, in the afternoon Pastor M. Lascelles, and in tho evening the Rev. Palgrave Davy, of Auckland.