MURDER MYSTERY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1924, Page 5

MURDER MYSTERY.

MAD OFFICER'S FATE. THOUGHT TO BE FOUND. REPORT LATER DENIED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, March 6. Major Bailey, who shot his wife early in December and then disappeared, has been declared insane and confined in an asylum in Luxemburg. The Luxemburg correspondent, of the Daily Chronicle states that on Saturday a man, who now turns out to be Bailey, arrived there from Metz, and later took train for Vianden. During the journey he developed madness, removed his shoes, threatened to kill the passengers, and smashed the windows. The passengers then overpowered him and handed him to the police. Doctors certified that Bailey was a lunatic. The police did not identify him till an officer casually noticed his name in the Scotland Yard list of wanted men. Where Bailey has been hidden till noW is a mystery. He has relapsed into sullen silence, sits with his arms folded in a padded room and refuses to answer questions or to partake of food.

Scotland Yard reveals that it received a letter from Germany on December 12, signed and stating “I know the result of mv trial would bp guilty. !>nt insane. This would moan a life sentence for me. It is my intention to live abroad and never return to England.” London, March <1 It is officially stated that the man fn the Luxemburg asylum is not Bailey. REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE. MANY POINTS IN COMMON. Received March 0, 8 p.m. London. March 6. The mistaken identity of Bailey was only revealed when the asylum authorities cheeked measurements, which did not tally. Otherwise the lunatic, an Italian named Luioi Belli, bears the most remarkable resemblance to Bailey, even having a smashed finger, a shrapnel scar, and the similar name also contributed to the similarity.