DIARY AMONG HUMAN BONES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 819, 13 November 1929, Page 1

DIARY AMONG HUMAN BONES

Grim Find in Suitcase SCOTLAND YARD ON TRAIL Detectives Question Woman Received 11 a m. LONDON, Tuesday. SCOTLAND YARD is still inquiring into the discovery of a suitcase containing charred human bones which was left on top of a London bus a few days ago. The suitcase was sent to a lost property office where it was opened The remains are believed to be "those of a youno woman. °

Detectives questioned Mrs. Eva Prescott, who is residing in the village of Yarkhill. Herefordshire, concerning i diary which was found in the suitrasc with the bones of the woman. Mrs. Prescott said: "How the dia y ;. am , to be in the place where they round it 1» a mystery. The diary must have been stolen and used deliberately to involve me, by someone with a ,p|te against, me." Scotland Yard is preserving a stolid silence, replying that no statement will he made till the investigations are completed. The Australian and New Zealand Press Association ascertained that

I .Mrs. Prescott visited Britain with the object of Chancery litigation. Declar- ] ing that someone was endeavouring to j defeat her claim, she instructed her ! ; solicitors to contest the case. I People to whom she confided her plans express the opinion that worry j I had seriously upset her. It is gathered that the best brains I I ot Scotland Yard have been unable : to decide whether the charred bones j are associated with a recent murder. It is significant that the chief inspector. having exhausted inquiries at Yarkhill. is concentrating iu London with a view to deciding the ownership of the suitcase and the articles found 1 I In it.