SHOCK CHRISTMAS MURDER OF FLEET STREET DUO, the headline on the front page shouted. Eagerly, Lenox read the article.

The shock murder of two of London journalism’s finest practitioners has shocked London this morning. “Winsome” Winston Carruthers, London editor of the Daily Telegraph, and the catholic Simon Pierce of the Daily News died within minutes of each other on christmas night. An unknown assailant shot Pierce in the heart at Pierce’s South London home, waking his entire household and throwing his wife into fits of hysteria, at approximately 1:07 A.M. this morning. No witnesses have contacted the Metropolitan Police: Come forth If you saw anything, readers. Not five minutes before, according to police reports, scarcely an hour into Boxing Day, Winston Carruthers was stabbed in his Oxford Street apartments. Police found Carruthers still warm after a resident of Oxford Street reported seeing a tall, disguised man climbing down a rope ladder! Exclusively, the NOTD has learned that Carruthers’s landlady and housekeeper, a Belgian woman, was on the scene and cooperated with the police officers- only to vanish this morning, leaving her apartments and their contents behind save for several small bags. Her two children left with her. Word has been sent to the ports of England with a description of the housekeeper. She is fat, with a prominent nose and a shriveled left hand. If you see her, readers, contact the police, or the NOTD’S editorial offices. According to Inspector Exeter, reliable and much decorated officer of Scotland Yard, the housekeeper (name withheld at our discretion) is not a suspect: At the same brief moments of the murder and the murderer’s absconding, she was witnessed by a few dozen people along Oxford Street visiting a local alehouse.However,readers, she may still be an accomplice to murder! If you see her, contact the police.