DIAMOND MERCHANT MURDERED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2102, 10 June 1907, Page 2

DIAMOND MERCHANT MURDERED.

A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. United Press Association— Copyright MELBOURNE, Juno 8. Barnett Bauer, a well-known diamond merchant, was discovered in “ ls r office in the Modern Chambers Co - lins-st reefs last evening with skull fractured in several place*, and died on removal to the hosp Though there were no signs o 8. struggle, he had evidently been brutally murdered. The affair is a complete mystery. A friend who saw Bauer ton minutes before the body was discovered found the door of the office locked. No one in the building heard any suspicious sounds.

MOTIVE OF THE DEED,

VALUABLE STONES MISSING

Received Juno 9, 4.59 p.m. MELBOURNE, June 9. Evidently robbery was the motive of the murder o:. : Bauer. Ho was in the habit of carrying a bag containing thousands of pounds worth of precious stones and pearls, and depositing them in the bank overnight. Tbm bag is missing. It i B stated that A contained gems worth two or three thousand pounds. The indications are that he wan struck down when weighing diamonds in the scales on the office talblej B ill hat is pierced where the fatal blows wore struck. ' : Bauer is a partner in the firm ot Bauer, Shaumer, and Bauer, importers and dealers in precious stones, doing a very large business throughout Australasia. They own a pearl!i^ifleet at Brcome.