TRUNK MURDER STILL BAFFLES POLICE
NO DEFINITE LEAD YET SEARCH FOR CHAUFFEUR By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Monday. The authorities at Scotland Yard are faced with a most difficult task in connection with the trunk murder mystery. The scenes of the police investigations have altered considerably, but they have not yet obtained a definite lead. They admit that each day adds to the murderer’s chance of avoiding arrest.
The latest theory is that a chauffeur is concerned in the crime. It is also stated that the murder and the dismemberment of the body occurred in the Marylebone district.
George Ward, a Brixton shopkeeper, who sold the trunk in which the remains of the murdered woman, Mrs. Bonita, were discovered, describes the purchaser as between 30 and 40 years of age, with dark moustache, sunburned and handsome, with piercing black eyes. He paid under 20s. for the trunk and carried it off on his shoulder.
The purchase!* said: “I only want it for one journey,” which now is regarded as possessing a sinister meaning.
The description of the man agrees with that given by a Charing Cross porter and a chauffeur, who drove the “mystery man” with the trunk to the station.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 9
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