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UNDERGRADUATE'S FATE

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Cambridge, Feb. 24.-A young undergraduate, gagged and bound hand and foot, dad ngainst his study door without any apparent injuries to his body;.

No sign of a struggle; and not a sound heard by followstudents in the adjoining rooms-.

Buch, briefly, are the extraordin ary features of the death mystery d 19-year-old Francis John Char- 1 Ellis, a first year under. graduate, who was found dead in bis room in Sidney Sussex College here this morning,

The police are faced with three possible solutions-murder, suicide

oracoidont.

It is understood that Ellis's death was due to suffocation, and that

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How, then, did Ellis meet his death 1

His rooms a study and a bed- room-era on the third floor of a modern blook of the callogo, `in which there are 38 résident under.. graduates.

The rooms are entered from a

corridor by a small square lobby, the bedroom door being opposite

the corridor, and the study door to this loft.

Wall 18 Foot High.

They overlook Garden Court, a

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stretch of grass about 30 yards wide, which is bound by the 187.0 foot high college wall, topped with broken glass,

Outside this wall is the corner

of King-street and Hobson-street.

The chief thing Scotland Yard are trying to ascertain is how Ellis could possibly have been over- powered, gagged and bound with "out undergradoates in the adjoin- ing rooms and on the floor below. hearing any sound.

Perhaps the most baffling point of the whole mysory is that the

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Mr. MoFall, the additional dis- trict "judge, to-day, in the caso in which he was accused of the thoft of a bag containing 8800 and a suitcase, the property of Mrs., Kaina Axo..

At a provious hearing the De.. puty Public Prosecutor said the Acoused was a married man whoso

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of the proceeds of her car which Dining Chairs, Sideboards, Crockery, he had sold that night. The ac Glass Ware, Cutlery, Cooking cused left the house ostensibly to Utensils, Ioo Chests, Dressing Tablos, Chest of Drawers, Washstanda, attend night duty. The complain-Blankets, Linen, Mosquito Nets, etc., ant went to bad, but was awakened etc. by someone's band under hor pil

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thero woro no minrks of violence hound body was found close up 7.35 to 8.40 p.m.-.

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A post-mortem examination was mado by Sir Bernard Spilsbury, who returned to London shortly lufore midnight.

Francis Ellis, a student of ar chæology and anthropology, who camo, up to Sidney Sussex College last October, was seen at supper. in the college hall at o'clock.

Just before Boven o'clock this morning his gyp (servant), Reuben Finch, found his bedroom, which is on the third floor, unoccupied. The bed had not been slept in.

In the adjoining study the cleco- tie light was still burning and the curtains were drawn.

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Huddled on the noor, against the door, Francis Ellis buy dad, his faco swathed in handkerchiefs, .

There was a funnel pad over his fac, over which eight handker. chiefs had been tied and knotted with reef knots behind the back of his head.

His hands were knotted tightly with handkerchiefs bohind his back, His feet, which were also tied with Fandkerchiefs, had been drawn up and lashed to his hands by a piece of electric wire flex.

The knees were tied together with ebbing puttess-Ellis was a mUM- ber of the Cambridge. Cadet, corpa --and the arma were braced back at the elbows and shouldera with taore bandkerchiefs.

No Sign of Struggle. From the honds at the shoulder there was attached a leather strap, as if it might have been used to Buspond the man. In every ca a neat reef knot. (a knot used hy

against the study doer, so that it was only with dileulty that the door was opened when Reuben Flach, his servant, discovered the tragedy.

The windows of the room were opened at the top, and the detec tives are investigating the possibil-. ily that the assailant escaped out of a window and down a rain pipe. This pipe extends 40ft, down to the ground 'n the college court.

If that is the explanation the murderer would still have had to climb the 18ft, wall.

Sir B. Spliabury, Another theory is that the mur- der was committed outside the col- lege and the body afterwards plac- el in the room. But this ia con- sidered unlikely, us last night, as usual, the main and only entraco at the porter's lodge was closed at 10 o'clock.

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the Home Office pathologist, was to day asked to mako a post-mortem examina tion.

He went at once to Ellis' rooms, where, after an interview with Chief Inspector Helby, he made a preliminary examination of the body.

Later the body was removed to the Cambridge hospital.

Mrs. Ellis, mother of the dend

youth, has arrived in Cambridge and is staying at a local hotel.

"Heavy Breathing,"

A follow-undergraduate who is in rooms on the same floor said:

"Ellis was very quiet and retir ing. His best friend told me this mcrning that he went to Ellis's room last night and knocked on the door about eleven" o'clock, but receiving no reply he wont away. He heard the sound of heavy breathing, but attached no import- ance to it at the time.

Ellis took his work very serious- sailors and by doctors for medically and had little recreation, al works) had been used.

though he did some running and

The body, which lay n its trecently took up squash rackets. I side facing the door, was fully have known him to sit up reading clothed in a plus four suit, oxcept his books until 5.30 in the morn- for the shoes and n jacket, which ing. 10y on a chair.

Two doors in the room were 'ößen, but there was no sign of disorder nor any sign of a struggle in the

room,

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Dr. Charles Searle, who was cal led, said that Ellis had been dead APPEARANCES about seven hours which means ho

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died about midnight.

Undergraduates' in adjoining rooms and Ellis's tutor, the Rev. B. T. D. Smith, whose rooms are almost immediately, below on the second floor, said they heard, no sound from the room during the night.

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The local police ordored that the body should be left exactly as it we found and the assistance of Scotland Yard was naked.

Chief-Inspector Helly and De- teetive-Bergeant Bell at once left the Yard and wore at Cambridge before noon.”

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"Ellis's death is an absolute mys- tery," Mr. B, T, D. Smith, his tutor, told me. The whole thing is so apparently motiveless, and so, absolutely baffling that I cannot even hazard a theory,

"Although an extremely studious youth, Ellis was quite popular in the college and so far na I know had not an enemy in the world,

"One suggestion has been that he mop his douth in a rag, but I think that or be dismissed.

"For one thing, it was Bunday night, when there is never any rag. ging, and for another some noiso

would have been heard.

"Yesterday he seemed to be in 'hie usual spirite, and in the after- noon visited an undergraduate in another collego for tea.

"I understand that there is some theory of other undergraduates rugging him and tying him up, be lieving that he would eventually

to-released, and that somehow the plan went wrong. I was here all last night. It is possible to hear anyone come in-the slightest moine,

hoard no noise at all in fact. up to the time I went to bed at 10. o'clock.

"Ellis was got the kind of per- son whom fellow undergraduates would choose to rag. He was too unassuming and inoffensive.

"Of course, we had a good rag here on Saturday, when the college bumps' suppers wore held. Ellis did not take part."

Mystery of Ecom 29,"',

A close guard was kept through- out the day over the corridor lead- ing to EEía's room: The body was not removed until after mid-day, and plainclothes detectives and a soldier in khaki ̈kept guard, in the building for some hours.

Nobody was allowed along the passage except detectives, who in- terviewed a number of under graduatos.

During the afternoon Mr. Pear. son, the Chief Constable, and Chief Inspector. Halby questioned a num bor of persons in other colleges and in the townspo

to bo

The tragedy has come. known in Cambridge and among the undergraduntos as "the mystery of Room 23," that being the num bur of Ellis's room.

2 Smothered, The rag theory is impossible, because no undergraduate, would In the college grounds, which can have amothered a man as Ellis wasbo.ooon-from Ellis's window, plain Amothered.

clothes mon were posted. A ́olose. search was made for footprints

"Suicido can also be ruled out, because ao tightly and completely were the knots tied that it would have been impossible for Ellis to knot them himsoll. Further, the boy had no worries, and was ex tremely keen on his work."

This is the second tragedy which has occurred in the building since it was erected boven years."ago, Tast year: an undergraduate, on the floor above that of Ellis's room, committed suicide.

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have the accused brought from England. "She was unable to do so, He had been introduced to the complainant and lived with hor when off duty. He spent practical ly the whole of his pay on house keeping with her. He obtained leave and passages were booked on the Mantua, due to sail May 31, He did not inform Mre, Axe that he intended going on leave as she would have created a scene. At that time she said she was "fod up" with Penang and wanted to go back to Shanghai. She proposed that ho should accompany her and ha agrood although he did not in tend doing so.

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