A MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
AIUUDER AND ROBBERY SUSPECTED By Cable —Press Association —Copyright London, January 21. The body of Thomas Hecks, a native of Sydney, a- ship's engineer, was found in a disused pit near Wolverhampton, There was a bullet wound in each eye. It is unknown whether it is a case of murder or suicide. Reeks was fourth engineer on board the steamer Scculia. tie was a stranger to Wolverhampton. On Saturday he had a wallet containing a hundred dollar bill and other bills, all'fif winch are now missing. Reeks was seen with another man at Liverpool on Holiday night. Enquiries show thet two respectably-dressed men entrained at Liverpnol, arriving at Wolverhampton early on Tuesday. The revolver has not been traced. Reeks recently,arrived from Canada, lie visited relatives at Swintoij and returned to Liverpool, where he remained a week. lie left there on Monday to revisit relatives, but did not reach Swinton. It is supposed the body was conveyed to Ettingshall in a motor ear. There were no bullet holes in the overcoat covering the head. SIGNIS OK A KTKI'CCI.E. WALLET MISSING. Received '22 L.'iO p.m. London. January 22. Reeks had a wallet containing adit dollars, which i., missing, also nine sovereigns. -A gold watch was found on the body, and a scarf phi was found a few yard- distant. M'jjgc-tiug; that there had been a struggle.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19140123.2.39
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 175, 23 January 1914, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
227A MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 175, 23 January 1914, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.