ROPE OF DEATH.
YOUNG MAN’S SUICIDE. LONDON, March 5. A strange sequel to the mysterious '‘Room 23” ease, concerning the death of the Combridge undergraduate F. J. Ellis, who body was found in his room with the hands and legs hound, occurred at Birkenhead. A you Her out-of-work railway porter, Drank Walker, was found dead in circumstances that suggested imitation. Walker had taken a keen interest in the Ellis affair. He twice tied himself up. His invalid mother released him in the first instance. She then went out. and when she returned found him hanging from a shelf in the scullery, beside a ladder from which apparently lie had accidentally slipped, with a rope round his neck over a towel. At the inquest a verdict was given accordingly.. In the case of Ellis, the \erdict was accidental death.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1931, Page 3
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138ROPE OF DEATH. Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1931, Page 3
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