THE MURDERED MERCHANT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 13 June 1907, Page 4

THE MURDERED MERCHANT.

A Clue Obtained. Mki-houkne, June xi. After Bauer, the diamond merchant, had been discovered in a dying condition in his rooms, Cutler, a jeweller, in Little Collins Street, informed the police that a man called at his shop and inquired for Bauer’s address a few days ago. The description given by Cutler corresponded with that of a well-known Victoria criminal. Suspicion points to the fugitive having gone to Sydney. This idea fits in with the story that a man was seen to leave the building in a violent hurry a few minutes after five. He hailed a cabman, telling him to drive fast to the Spencer Street railway station, where the Sydney express left at 5.5 p.m. Mr Barnedtt Bauer, who was brutally murdered at his office in Collins Street Melbourne, last Friday, was very well known in Wellington (says the N.Z. Times), having been a frequent visitor to this city for a number of years past in his capacity as a wholesale jeweller, He was in former years manager for Meyer and Co., wholesale jewellers ; that was before he entered into the business he was connected with at the time of his death. When at Wellington he always made the Empire Hotel his headquarters, and was well known to most of the regular guests staying at that familiar hostelry. He had many friends in ' the city apart from those he made in the course of his business, particularly among the Jewish community. He was one of the most popular travellers “on the road ” in New Zealand. Mr Bauer was a man of medium height and spare frame, with a short-clipped iron-grey beard, and kindly grey eyes, which did not belie his amiable disposition. He was a German. He is believed to have been married.