JEWELLER'S FATE.
ACCUSED COMMITTED
ADELAIDE, February 23. | At the inquest concerning the death of; | John Robert Hindmai sh, the Adelaide | jeweller who was decoyed to a hotel, j robbed and then strangled, two men named Robert Reynolds and John Baxter were committed for trial on a charge of murder. The coroner'" verdict was that death was due to rapid asphyxia, caused by injuries to the neck and windpipe, the result of a gag being fastened tightly over the deceased's mouth and round his neck. i Mr. Hindmarsh was visited at his shop by a man who said he had a friend lying indisposed at a hotel, who wished to purchase certain jewellery. He wanted to see the goods on appro. Mr. Hindmarsh himself took the goods, valued at over £1000 to a certain room in the hotel named. He was discovered in the bedroom the following day dead, and the jewellery | was missing.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1927, Page 9
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