ROPE OF DEATH

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 82, 16 March 1931, Page 5

ROPE OF DEATH

YOUNG MAN’S SUICIDE LONDON. March 5. A strange senuel to the mysterious “Room 23” ease, concerning the Peath of the Cambridge undergraduate. P. .L Ellis, whose hodv was found in his room with the hands and legs hound, occnwed at, Birkenhead. A young mit-of-work railway porter. Prank Walker, was found dead in circumstances that sngesfed imitation. Walker had taken a keen interest in the Ellis affair. He twice tied himself tin. His invalid mother released him in the first instance. She then went out. and when she returned found him hanging from a shelf in the scullery, beside a ladder from which apparently he had accidentally slipped, with a rope round his neck over a towel. At the inquest a verdict was given accordingly. In *he ease oi Ellis, the verdict was accidental death.