POLICE STILL BAFFLED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15520, 30 January 1914, Page 7

POLICE STILL BAFFLED.

THE REEKS MURDER.

MISSING . COMPANION. • ♦ " *• . ' By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright. (Received January 29, 6' p.m.), London, January 29. In connection with the murder of the Sydney engineer, Reeks, the police have cabled to Canadian; detectives to meet the steamer Grampian, which has a suspect on boardA girl friend whom ; the deceased met oh .'the , Empress of Ireland states .that Reeks told, her he ,had friends at Bournemouth whom he in"tended to visit. ; She was with him when he obtained his ' dollar ' bills from the purser, who took, charge of them . during the: voyage. 1 Reeks counted the notes openly in the presence of the ' crowd waiting ' to.i leave the boat, - and walked ashore / with the girl, who then took a cab and went home. . •' '■ • .• The police at Liverpool admit | that their investigations have ended in a stonewall. , " ' : Although Reeks did not visit London, Scotland Yard is investigating London clues. The. police have made a fruitless search for ! the. real Ramsden, who came over in" the steamer with Reeks from Canada. The emigrant on the, Grampian| has been proved to have .no connection with the tragedy. The doctors have discovered that Reeks's last dinner included pea .soup and haTicot beans. These were on. the-menus of the North-Western Railway Company's dining-cars. The police are enquiring whether, they were served on the Liverpool-Wolverhampton train in which it is suspected th|re were i members of the " confidence trick' 7 fraternity from Manchester The police kept a look out for these men* until they quitted j Manchester.

SHOT WHILE STANDING.

PIT SHAFT FLOODED.

Times-Sydney Sun. -Special Cable.

London, January 29. The police state that the bullets went through the. deceased's head, showing that he was in an uprignu position when he was shot. The senior detective at Wolverhampton is of opinion that the murderer knew the shaft near which the body was found, but that the knowledge was not recent- A brick wall had since been raised to 10ft owing to several suicides. It is thought that the murderer persuaded Reeks to alight from a motor-car on the pretence of a short cut, and after the shooting was unable to' lift the body over the wall. The shaft is flooded with water 200fi deep, and it is practically impossible to empty it.