MYSTERY OF ROOM 66

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 246, 18 November 1929, Page 8

MYSTERY OF ROOM 66

United Press Assn.

STRANGE DEATH OF A WOMAN. Scotland Yard Puzzled.

Electric Cable Copyrigbt

LONDON, Nov. 16. What will be known as the mystery of room 66 is intriguing the police and the newspaper reading public alike. A woman named Mrs Rosaline Fox was found iu room 66 of the Hotel Metropole at .Margate ,at niidnight on October 23 dead on a bed after a fire in tbe room. Tbe verdict at tbe iuquest was death from misadventnre and she was duly buried at Great Fansham, Norfolk. Early in November, however, a Scotland Yard officer arrived at Margate to investigate the death, tlie result being tbe exbuination of tbe body on November 9, and the organs were sent to Sir B. Spilsbury for examination. Since then a long series of puzzling facts has been elicited,' suggesting that the woman's death was far from a simple prohlem. Peculiar features are that the woman arrived at tlie hotel without luggage, carrying only a handbag. She did not even have night attire. Secondly, she effected a £1000 insurance on lier life on October 21 under a short term accident policy. Two days later she died. Curiously nobody has claimed the £1000. Four large packing cases coiitaining clues were consigned to Scotland Yard to-night.