MYSTERIOUS CASES.
THREE BAFFLING CRIMES. 4 Y CATM.ti PRESS * flSrw-T ATTON —POPYP UrUT LONDON, Feb. 20. The resources of Scotland Yard have been fully taxed by three baffling murders within ten days. Following an arrest made in connection ■with the Durham Bank murder, Norman Elliott was formally charged and remanded. The post mortem revealed that a blow had been deliberately aimed to cause death by a person with a knowledge ot anatomy. No sooner had the made gross with this case than it was con"ronted with a strange crime at Bude, Cornwall, where Richard Roadley, an 84-year-oid wealthy recluse, but with a reputation for generosity to the needy, was battered to death in his home. The room was ransacked, but a wallet containing £8 was, lying on a chair. The mystery of the murder of \\ ebb, who was shot dead when he surprised a burglar in his flat early this month, is also still unsolved.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 22 February 1928, Page 5
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