It was at first thought that robbery appeared to have been tha motive, but it is significant that while a valuable diamond ring, some $900 in notes, and rare coins that were known to be in Mr. Goldenberg's possession are missing, his assailant, although he took the keys of the office safe, made no attempt to rob it. On Monday afternoon when the police opened it all money and documents therein were found to be untouched. When tae police broke into the murdered man's room, the key was missing from the inner side of the lock, showing that his assailant desired that as long a period as possible should elapse befure discovery of the crime.
Yhere is a possibility that the murderer entered the premises by the fire escape. The boy and his wife were probably sleeping too soundly to be awakened by footsteps passing through their room in the rear of theatre. The doors are stated to be almost soundproof, A.cuce 1b Would have been uupossibie for the boy even bad he peen awake to hear a man shout much less utter a stifled groan.
DECEASED'S CAREER, Mr. Goldenberg was a married man of some 36 years of age, who leaves a wife and four children. They reside in Yates Road, but he had slept at the theatre since Air. Kamos went to America 12 months ago. A Jew of Spanish extracuon, born in Singapore, he was registered in Shanghai as a citizen of Spain. He was with Mr. amos, one of the earliest pioneers tu the local film trade. the two have since 1904 been intimately as suclated together in this business, but it was not until Apri, 1918, that Mir. Goldenberg joined hun the management or the Victoria Aheatre. Sixwen years ago when he came here from Manila Mr. Goldenberg opened Shanghai's first picture palace in Chapoo Road viriding the venture a success he started another, the Republic Uinema, which he ran for seven or eight years. He had travelled widely throughout Europe, South America and the East. A fluent speaker of Chinese, he had also mastered several Asiatic languages, m addition to English and Italian He had many friends'in Shanghai and was well liked for his cordial manner by by all who had business dealings with him and regular patrons at the theatre.
Farther Particulars of the Tragic Event: So Far a Baflling Mystery A verdict, that Mr. Bernard Goldenberg, the victim of the terrible tragedy at the Victoria
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