REEKS MYSTERY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11934, 23 March 1914, Page 5

REEKS MYSTERY.

LETTERS HANDED TO POLICE

Pj esf Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyricht. LONDON, Sunday.

A mercantile ollicer, a friend of Reeks, whose body was found in a. pit near "Wolverhampton, in January, handed to the Liverpool police letters from Reeks, which, it is alleged, throw light on the hitter's movements in. England.

(It was reported on .lanuary 2.lst that the body of a man named Reeks, a native of Sydney, a ship's engineer, had been found in a disused pit near Wolverhampton, with a bullet wound, in the forehead, and also bullet wounds in each eye. It was not known whether it was a. case of murder or suicide. Reeks was fourth engineer on board the Secolia. He was a stranger to Wolverhampton. He had on the previous Saturday a wallet containing iive hundred dollar bills. All these were missing. Reeks was seen with another man in Liverpool. Inquiries showed that, two respectably dressed men boarded a train at Liverpool, arriving «at Wolverhampton early on the previous Tuesday. The revolver had not been traced. Reeks recently arrived from Canada. He visited relatives at Swinton and returned to Liverpool, where he remained a week. He left on Monday to re-visit his relations, but did not reach Swinton. It was supposed the body was conveyed to Ettiugshall in a, motor-car. There were no bullet-holes in an overcoat which covered the head. Nine sovereigns and a gold watch were found on the body, while a scarf-pin was found a few yards distant, suggesting that there had been a struggle.)