EASTER MYSTERIES

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11497, 18 April 1923, Page 7

EASTER MYSTERIES

WOMAN STABBED IN STREET. MAN DEAD IN HOTEL. LONDON, April 4. Several strange incidents occurred in London during the Easter holidays. An Islington woman, who was accompanied by her husband, was found struggling on a trarpear near the Thames Embankment. She had been stabbed in the throat, the wound being serious. Her assailant, believed to have been a woman, -disappeared into the crowd. A cripple seated in a . crowded concert pavilion at Brighton began to toy with a revolver, and suddenly fired, wounding in the leg a girl who was sitting with her sweetheart. He explained that be did not know the revolver was loaded. There was a mysterious affair in a priyate hotel near -the Strand. Mr Myers Goodman, theatrical agent, ar-’ rived at 2(30 a.mi, and asked to be wakened at 9 a.m., as he had to keep an important engagement. He was heard at 5 a.m. moaning and calling for' a doctor. The porter searched Vainly for a doctor, and a policeman refused to interfere, as a private house was concerned. Goodman was eventually removed to a hospital, but died without making a statement. The police took possession of a- bottle containing tablets ahd liquids found in the room. Goodman’s partner stated that Goodman was worried about his affairs.