A "HOODOO" ROOM.
RUSH FOR RELICS. MURDER SOUVENIRS. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, April 22. Workmen demolishing • tlie Hotel Metropole, Margate, this week paused when they came to Room (i(i. Fearing a "hoodoo," they drew lots for the job. Half an hour later Arthur Base, one of the six men who had to carry on with the demolition, was severely injured on the head by a falling brick. It was ill Room (it! that Sidney Harry Fox killed his infirm mother for £3000 insurance money in 1929. Scores of relic hunters swarmed round the workmen sis their picks smashed the wall* of the room. Two of them quarrelled over tlu- authenticity of the door key. Neither had tlie right one, for that had been obtained by an earlier caller. One of the detectives who helped bring Fox to justice took home the bedroom door. "Unofficial" hunters even unscrewed the door handles and wall fittings. Brushes, odd ornaments, menuej and notices* were-oiher" "captures."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 9
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161A "HOODOO" ROOM. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 9
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