MYSTERY ROOM

Northern Advocate, 18 November 1929, Page 5

MYSTERY ROOM

SEQUEL TO WOMAN’S DEATH BODY DISINTERRED. puzzling features.

(United Press Association —By F.lectric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received ILfifi a.m.) LONDON, November Id.

What will be known as the "Mystery of Room 66” is intriguing the police and the newspaper-reading public alike.

A woman named .Mrs Rosaline Fox was found in Room 66 of the Hotel Metropole at Margate at midnight on October 2.4, dead on the bed, after a (Ire in the mom.

The verdict at the inquest was death f.-om misadventure, and she was duly buried at Great Fansham, Norfolk. Early in November, however, a Scotland Yard officer arrived at Margate to investigate the death, the result being exhumation of the body on November 9. The organs were sent to Sir Bernard Spilsbnry for exnmim

Since then a long series of puzzling facts has been elicited, suggesting that the death was far from a simple problem.

Peculiar features are that the

• oman' arrived at the hotel without luggage, carrying only a handbag,' She did not even have night attire. Secondly, she effected a £IOOO insurance on her life on October 21, imdci a short-term accident policy. Two days later she died, and curiously nol.odv has claimed the £IOOO.

Four large packing eases containing clues wore consigned to Scotland Yard tonight.