Murder or Suicide.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1403, 24 January 1914, Page 5

Murder or Suicide.

FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED

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A booking cleric in the London and iNorth western station at Wolverhampton states that on Tuesday night a man presented a voucher and booked a passage on the Grampian. The man’s manner was agitated. His description tallies with chat of Keeks’ companion. The Grampian sailed on Wednesday, and is due at St. John’s on the 30th. A wireless message has been despatched to have the man detained.

Sydney, Friday. Mr Walter Keeks, a well-known Sydney naval architect, believes there is little doubt that the imui murdered in England is his son. Kent Reeks, especially as the cabled statement mentions tnat he was visiting some

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Loudon, .Lin. 2d The newspapers continue to give prominence to the Reeks mystery. The Staffordshire police state Reeks travelled from Canada under an assumed name His shoes were so scratched as to suggest the body had been dragged to the pit by the overcoat.

The police are coming to the conclusion that the crime was not the work of a single person, and it is suggested that bloodhounds be used to trace the murderers.

The cartridge cases found near the body were of an old pattern filed to fit a modern weapon. Experts say the cartridges were made abroad.

The police are searching for Reeks’companion, T. H. Rarasden, of Chicago. They appeared to be close friends.