TRUNK TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1927, Page 2

TRUNK TRAGEDY

Australia A N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May in. The best brains in Scotland Yard ale concentrated on the trunk tragedy. The body is that of a woman between the ages of 35 and 40 years. The woman’s death was the result ol a wound by a sharp instrument. The woman's shoes, coat and skirt were found in the trunk, and on a fragment of the underskirt there is a plain laundry mark, which the detectives regard as important evidence. Attached to the trunk was a label with tlie name ” F. Austin. Saint Leonards.’’

The police believe that the murder was committed in London. Ihe detectives are hampered by the fact that twelve similar trunks were deposited in the cloakroom on the same day.

Police investigations show that a well-dressed, middle-aged man drove up in a taxi on Friday, c alled a porter and asked that the trunk he deposited, stating lie intended to call for it later in the day. A few minutes later a boy picked u]) a ticket in the station yard, which corresponded with the entry in the hook, and which evidently had been thrown away. LOXDOX. May 11.

Regarding the murder, Scotland Yard has now practically established that the trunk was sold in the Brixtm district to a man probably residing in the neighbourhood. TRI'XK TRAGEDY. LOXDOX. May 11.

The “Daily Mail” has definitely ascertained that the woman victim of the trunk tragedy was suffocated. The murderer is believed to have lived together in South London shortly before the crime.