CLOSE OF THE INQUEST.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13391, 12 February 1914, Page 5

CLOSE OF THE INQUEST.

VERDICT QF...WILFUL MURDER

London, Feb. 10,

At:tlie'inquest on Thomas Reeks, the victim of the Wolverliamptori tragedy, a Verdict of wilful murder "by some unknown^ persoris '\waZ 'returned;

.The coroner /stated ,thai> tlier© was not-th<s:&liglitest"dbtibti3Ut that Reeks ayas cruelly; murdered. The police are quite unable to ascertain what brought Reeks v : .^o the■neighbourhood, or *to trade"" his"-movements after he left LiverDopl. . jdarbonic acid gas prevented an experienced" miner, descending the Ettingshall pit shaft.

A police .inquiry regarding telegrams sent by- - two.- -American sailors from Liverpool % iWblyerhampton, notifying thai ; s6meone :,.■ Was visiting a frieMj, s«ne da^tafleiljieeks left; E^erpxiiSir

"The Montreal immigration autkorities have filially decided to release Rogers, the' man who was detained on the drrivarof the Grampian.