A REPORTER'S ORDEAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 5

A REPORTER'S ORDEAL

SLEEPS IN MURDER-ROOM LONDON, March »S. Probably one id' the queerest assignments ever given a reporter was that discharged by a. member of the Sunday Express stall', who was instructed by his chic!' to sleep in loom (Hi at the Hole! Margate, the loom in which Mrs. Fox was murdered. In his article Ihe reporter describes the surprise of (he hotel staff when lie booked, lie had to persuade the manager, who told him I hoi a month after the murder the bell of room (id rang violently, although- the door was locked and 'the police had the keys. The manager added that be himself would have to sleep in the room after the reporter had '-broken it in." because he could ne\er hope to let it to visitors. The reporter spent a wakeful night, hut: instead of dreaming of this murder he dreamed of a murder described bv De Quincey, whose book "Murder as a Fine Art' - be had brought as a bedside companion. The reporter is prepared to certify Hint the room is immune from spooks. The manager said that as soon lis the lire was pur mil he observed to his wife, ''.l wonder if that young scoundrel has /lone away with the old ladvC