GARAGE MURDER.
Baffling Mystery For Scotland Yard. SLATER COVERS HIS TRACKS. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, January 14. The police have not yet solved the mystery of the murder of Vivian aped 3-3. Southampton manager of an American oil company. The authorities at Scotland Yard are now satisfied that Mr. Messiter was murdered in hie garage while he was bending over a car. An extraordinary feature of the case in the inability of the detectives to locate the bullet, the mark of which passed directly through the head. The police are inclined to the theory that the murderer, who was sufficiently calm to secrete the body between two packing cases and to lock the garage door and also the door to the outer yard, might have searched and found the bullet, remembering how fatal a similar clue proved in the case of the murder of Constable Outteridjre.
A fresh clue was obtained last evening in the discovery of a heavy haramtr believed to bear bloodstains. *This had been secreted behind *ome oil drums in the garage.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 7
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