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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20374, 3 July 1934, Page 14

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SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANKE. SYDNEY, July 3. Commonwealth 4 p.e. bonds:— 1935, £lOl 15s; 1955, £lO9 15s. Tooth's Brewery, 43s 9d; Anthony Hordern, 15s; Associated News (pref.), 23s 3d; Australian Glass, 495; Broken Hill Proprietary, 45s 3d: Dunlop Rubber, ISs; Wilcox Mofflin. 11s 9d. HOTEL INQUEST. (Continued, frem Page 7.) Sergeant Harrlison said that after searching the room and the balcony for a weapon he left Murphy there with instructions to leave everything as it was. Witness telephoned to the Chief Detective and the Inspector, and went upstairs to wait until the rest of the police arrived. The Chief DetectiVe: Did you note a seagrass chair and its position when you went round to the body?—Yes, and also some man’s clothing and a pair of pyjamas and a watch and chain were on the mantlepiece and some silver. Had anyone else been in the room except you and Constable Murphy during the time you were there ?—No. * Did you see Mrs Fraser and Joyce when you went to ring?— They were in the same position on the landing as when I arrived. The Coroner; Did the doctor shift the body?—No. Mr Thomas: Did you see Constable Murphy close any doors?— No. C“ JffsA’s yDU in the r.ooja the whole . .time Constable Murphy and Dr Hall were there? —Yes. \ And yon never saw Constable Murphy, put his boot to the door . and break the catch?—No. Z PIS feba see Constable Murphy ppen the doors to the balcony at any .time? —The only, time he went to the balcony was with me. The doors were open. ** Dr Hall said he arrived at the hotel at 5..5 a.m. He was met byConstable Murphy, who took him to k ah upstair bedroom, where the dead body df a man was lying. He examined the body .lust superficially at that time to make sure the man was dead. The body was warm and Wag lying in a prone position, legs and arms outstretched, the head ’ touching the floor. And after you had examined the . body did you makes any examination of the bed?—Yes. The bedclothes were heaped up at the foot of the bed, the rest of the bed showing clear to view. The side of the bed nearest the body showed a wellmarked depression, as though someone had been lying there. The pillow on that side showed a deep depression. There was a small stain of blood alongside. There was quite a large stain of blood on the edge of the bed nearest the body, about a third of the distance from the pillow to the foot down, the sheet and the mattress being soaked in blood.