WOMAN DEAD IN HOTEL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 823, 18 November 1929, Page 9

WOMAN DEAD IN HOTEL

LONDON POLICE EXHUME BODY A BAFFLING MYSTERY LONDON, Saturday. | What will probably be known as ; “The Mystery of Room 6(i” is intriguing the police and the newspaperi reading public alike. Mrs. Rosaline Fox was found in a l room bearing that number in the i Hotel Metropole at Margate, at mid- | night on October 23. She was lying : dead on the bed after a lire in the room. The verdict of the inquest was one of death from misadventure and the woman was duly buried at Great 1 Fransham, Norfolk, on October 29. Early this month, however, an I officer from Scotland Yard arrived at ! Margate to investigate Mrs. Fox’s | death. One result was the exhumation jof her body on November 9. Her j organs were sent to Sir Bernard Spils--1 bury, pathologist to the Home Office, j for examination. Since then a long series of puzzling "facts have been elicited. These suggest that the" woman’s death presents a far from simple problem. Peculiar features are that she arrived at the j hotel without luggage, except a handI bag, and she had not even any night 1 attire. ! A second fact is that Mrs. Fox had 1 insured her life on October 21 under a short-term accident policy. Two i days later she died, but " curiously | enough nobody has claimed the £I,OOO ; insurance money. ■ Four large packing-cases, said to contain clues, were consigned to Scotland Yard this evening.