A TRAGIC discovery was made at Bishop’s Hotel last evening when a maid, on entering the suite of Signora da Costa, a rich Argentine guest at the hotel, found her dead body on the bed wrapped in an eiderdown.
An extraordinary feature of the crime is that the body had on nothing but a number of magnificent jewels. Other jewels of great value were strewn on the dressing table, and so far nothing appears to be missing. The unfortunate woman had been smothered.
Half an hour after this tragedy was discovered the Countess of Trelorne, on returning from a drive in her car, found that her room in the same corridor had been ransacked by thieves who had made off with her famous collection of jewels including the well-known Trelorne pearls.
Scotland Yard officers are at work on the scenes of both crimes, and are anxious to get in touch with a young man who is known to have lunched with the Signora yesterday, and a woman who visited her later in the afternoon.
The Signora arrived from Paris on Monday night. She was a woman of great beauty and had been painted by many artists of the modern school.