“TRUNK” MURDER

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 May 1927, Page 6

“TRUNK” MURDER

ANTECEDENTS OF VICTIM

THE MYSTERY DEEPENS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (By Cable —Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LONDON, May 12.

Scotland Yard states that the murdered woman’s name was either Larnatti or Bonati, nee Budd. She was British born, and her age was 37 years. Her right index finger was slightly deformed. The woman left her husband in 1923, and then lived with a man in London and in Tilbury, until July, 1926. She had then resided in Marylebone, and Chelsea, under the name of Mrs. Roles. She obtained a living by daily acting as a cook. For the past six weeks she lived at Fulham as Mrs. Budd, and she was last seen alive on the 4th of May. LATER— One of the most curious facts of today’s investigations in the trunk tragedy was that Scotland Yard made a discovery that the woman Bonati was last seen alive on the Wednesday, two days before the trunk was deposited, at Charing Cross. The medical opinion is that death occurred a fortnight before the examination of the body. Following on this development, an entirely new construction of the crime has been built up as a working basis. This has caused Scotland Yard to revise its full official statement.