The Archive · 1924

The Bungalow Murder

Discovery in a Lonely House:

Details Suggest Case for Sherlock Holmes rot Our Ows Comnesroxnent London, May 8.

Politics have this week been quite" pushed into the background by what is'known as the "Bungalow Crime." It certainly is a-remark-lable tragedy even in these days when crime is being carried to such a high measure of perfection, Last Friday evening a man went the cloakroom at Waterloo Station and! presented a ticket for 'a Gladstone bag which had been deposited there about a fortnight before. As he was about to carry away the bag two detectives spoke. to him and requested him to accompany them to the Kennington Road police station where the bag was Jopened. It was then found that its contents were two long and broad pieces of silk, an article of woman's underclothing, a small piece of flesh, some powder, said to be Time, and a Targe knife something like'a bread knife. The silk and underclothing were bloodstained. Apparently someone in the station cloakroom had noticed what he thought were bloodstains on the bag and had communicated his sus-pleions to the Scotland Yard Jthorities, who decided to place detective on watch until the article was claimed, Hence the detention lof the man,

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