SCOTLAND YARD ON THE TRAIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 42, 12 May 1927, Page 13

SCOTLAND YARD ON THE TRAIL

CHARING CROSS MYSTERY EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES LONDON, Wednesday. Scotland Yard has begun its search for the murderer of the woman whose dismembered body was found in a trunk at Charing Cross station. Inquiries by detectives have practically established that the trunk was aold in the Brixton district to a man who probably lived in the neighbour hood. The ablest men in Scotland Yard have concentrated their efforts in an attempt to unravel the problem. The body is that of a woman of between o 5 and 40 years of age. Her death was the result of a wound by a aharp instrument. A woman’s shoes, coat and skirt were found in the trunk, and on a fragment of an underskirt there was a plain laundry mark which the detectives regard as important evidence. Attached to the trunk was a label with the name “F. Austin, St. Leonards."

The police believe that the murder was committed in London. The detectives are hampered by the fact that twelve similar trunks were deposited in the cloak room on the same day. Investigations show that a welloressed, middle-aged man drove up to the station in a taxi on a Friday. He called a porter and asked that a trunk might be deposited, and said he intended to call for it later in the day. A few minutes later a boy picked II P a ticket in the station yard which corresponded with the entry in the book. Evidently the man had thrown the ticket away. The "Daily Mail” says' it has been definitely ascertained that the woman who was the victim of the trunk tragedy was suffocated by the murderer.

It is believed the pair had lived together in South London shortly betore the crime was' committed.—A. *nd N.Z.-Sun.