There was no sign of a struggle or of any disturbance in the room.

A square piece of cloth was missing from the victim's dinner jacket.
In its editorial columns the same paper discussed the more general aspects of the murder.

This, it said, was the third club man murdered in the last fortnight.

While not taking an alarmist view, the paper felt that the killing of club men had got to stop.

There was a limit, a reasonable limit, to everything.