MYSTERIOUS CRIME

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 12 May 1927, Page 7

MYSTERIOUS CRIME

LONDON TRUNK TRAGEDY POLICE INVESTIGATIONS (Australian and N.Z. Cable Associntion.i LONDON, May 10. The best brains in Scotland Yard are concentrated on the trunk tragedy. The body is that of a woman between 35 and 40 years. Death was the result of a wound by a sharp instrument. The woman's shoes, coat, and skirt were found in the trunk, and on a fragment of the underskirt was a plain laundry mark, which the detectives regard as important evidence. Attached to the trunk was a label with the name "P. Austin, St. Leonard's." The police believe the murder was committed in London, j Detectives are hampered by the fact that 12 similar trunks were deposited in the cloak room on the same day. Investigations show that a welldressed, middle-aged man drove up in a taxi on the Friday, called a porter, and asked that the trunk be deposited in the station, and he intended to call for it later in the day. A few minutes later a boy picked up a ticket in the station yard which correspond-' ed with the entry in the book and had evidently been thrown away. Scotland Yard has practically established that the trunk was sold in the Brixton district to a man probably residing in the neighborhood. The Daily Mail says it has definitely ascertained that the victim of' the trunk tragedy was suffocated. The murderer is believed to have lived with the woman in South London shortly before the crime.