MYSTERIOUS CRIMES
DETECTIVES BAFFLED Arrest for Bank Murder WEALTHY RECLUSE DONE TO DEATH. (Received February 21 at 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, February 20. The resources of Scotland Yard are fully taxed by three baffling murders within ten days. Following night and day inquiri o . o , the arrest was made in connection with the Durham Bank murder of Norma.i Elliot, who was formally charged and remanded. The post mortem revealed that the blow was deliberately aimed to cause death, by persons with anatomical knowledge. No sooner had they made progress with this case, when they were confronted with a strange crime at Bude, Cornwall, where Richard Roadley, aged 84. a wealthy recluse, but with a reputation for generosity to the needy, wa ; battered to death in his home. The room was ransacked, but a wallet con
taining £8 was lying on a chair. The Webb mystery (cabled February 13) is still unsolved.
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Grey River Argus, 22 February 1928, Page 5
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