ONLY A MATCH
LINKS WITH TRUNK TRAGEDY
LONDON, June 9. The hearing of the ".case' in Which Jofiii Robinson Hits been charged with the miir'der of Mrs Ednati; whose dismembered body was found in . a trunk at Charing Cross railway station, was resumed to-day at the Westminister Court-
The police gave evidence of the finding of a match-stick in a wastepaper basket on the premises in Rochester Row which attracted attention because it appeared bloodstained. After that they accompanied Robinson tt> C.lapfiam Common, and recovered a knife buried mitier a> tree.
Charles Clover, a sbli'eitbr’s clerk; who let tho roonis to Robinson, gave evidence that the ti-Unlc which two detectives carried iiito the court was similar to a trunk which 'he saw iii RObiiisofi’S room.
The further hearing was adjourned
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16371, 20 June 1927, Page 11
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130ONLY A MATCH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16371, 20 June 1927, Page 11
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