HOTEL MYSTERY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 8 February 1927, Page 5

HOTEL MYSTERY

SHOCK FOR THE MAID.

BODY OF JEWELLER. FOUND -DEAD IN BED. rIY CABLE PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ADELAIDE, Feb. 7. A man walked into a jeweller’s shop and said he was acting on behalf of a man who was lying ill at a hotel. He made inquiries regarding jewellery'. The manager of the shop, Mr John Robert Hindmarsh, took three single diamond rings valued at £6O each, motored to the hotel and went to a certain bedroom. In the morning, a maid opened the door at 9.30 to announce that breakfast was ready'. She observed a man in bod apparently asleep and did not wake him. Two hours later, on again going to the room, she saw the man in the same position. The police were called and it was found that the man in bed was dead. He proved to be Hindmarsh. The police are of the opinion that he was enticed to the room, where he was bound and gagged, but the assailants took too long, over the work and Hindmarsh was suffocated. «

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