Full of Mystery.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1914, Page 5

Full of Mystery.

THE MURDER OF REEKS.

TH£ POLICE BAFFLED,

TBy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. Loudon, January 28

The police state that the bullets went through Leeks’ head, showing that he was in an upright position when shot.

A Liverpool girl informed the police that Reeks showed her a bundle of notes in the presence of many passengers and walked part of the way home with her.

Reeks met Ramsdeu first at a hotel. Ramsden booked a bedroom for two nights and paid his bill on Monday, saying he might return in four days. Reeks on leaving said that neither Ramsden nor himself would return to

The police have cabled to Canadian detectives to meet the steamer Grampian. Scotland Yard is investigating a clue. A girl friend whom Reeks met on board the Empress of Ireland states that Reeks told her ho had friends at Bournemouth, whom he intended to visit. She was with him when he obtained his dollar bills from the purser,

who took charge of them during the voyage. Recks counted the notes open-

ly in the presence of the crowd who were waiting to leave the boat, and walked ashore with the girl, who took a cab and went home.

The police at Liverpool admit that the investigation has ended in a stonewall. Although Reeks did not visit London, Scotland Yard is investigating London clues. The search for .‘the real Ramsdcn has been fruitless.

The emigrant aboard the Grampian was not connected with the tragedy.

A doctor has discovered that Reeks’ last dinner included pea soup and haricot beans. These were on the menus of London and North-Western diningcars. The police are inquiring whether they were served onMhe Liver-pool-Wolverhampton train on which were suspected confidence tricksters from Ma nchester races. The police watched the tricksters until they quitted Manchester.

The senior detective at Wolverhampton opines that Reeks’ murderer knew the shaft, but his knowledge was not recent. The brick wall had since been

raised to ten feet owing to several suicides. The murderer probably persuaded Reeks to alight from the motor car on pretence that it was a short cut. After shooting him he was unable to lift t\ie body over the wall. The shaft is flooded for two hundred feet and it is practically impossible to empty it.

THE RAMSDENS KNOW NOTHING.

[United Press Association.’’ (Received 9.40 a.in.) London, January 29. There are two families named Ramsden at Wolverhampton and four at Leeds. All deny knowledge of the wanted man.

COMPLETELY BAFFLED.

(Received 11.15 a.m.) London, January 29

The police are still inquiring for Ramsden by means of tl\e signature in the Liverpool hotel hook. There are no grounds for thinking that Ramsden was the passenger with Reeks, hut he was amongst the crowd who saw Reeks’ dollar hills.

The police are unable to make anything of the slips of paper with the name “Parsons” thereon, which were found in Reeks’ bedroom, - apparently In Reeks’ writing.