STUDENTS’ FATAL RAG
YOUTH KILLED IN BEDROOM GAGGED WITH HANDKERCHIEFS PATHOLOGIST’S DEDUCT!ONS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Feb. 24. The death of a 19-year-old freshman, Francis Ellis, who was found trussed and gagged w.it:i, a number of handkerchiefs m his bedroom at Sussex College, Cambridge, puzzled the police until •fair Bernard Spiisbury’s investigation convinced them that the tiaged) was the result of a students' rag. No sound was heard during the night and no sign of a struggle was evident. There were no strangers about the building, and it is believed the tightness of the knots when the body was found was due to rigor mortis. A man coukl not have so tied Ellis unaided.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 25 February 1931, Page 5
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122STUDENTS’ FATAL RAG Hawera Star, Volume L, 25 February 1931, Page 5
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