OCEAN TRAGEDY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 126, 10 March 1937, Page 5

OCEAN TRAGEDY

JUDICIAL INQUIRY IN FRANCE.

INVESTIGATIONS BY THE POLICE. QUESTION OF MONEY RAISED. (United Press Association— Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) PARIS, March 9. The judicial inquiry into the disappearance of Frank Vosper from the liner Paris has opened at Le Havre. In the meantime the police examined the cabin occupied by Miss Oxford and decided that the window was too small to permit anyone to fall out accidentally. They are now inquiring about £4OOO Vosper earned at Hollywood, which amount, it is reported, he took aboard with him. The police are anxious to determine whether the money was in his pocket when he went overboard. STATEMENT BY A SOLICITOR. LONDON, March 8. “I am convinced Miss Oxford told the whole truth,” said Mr W. L. Pengelly (Vosper’s solicitor and executor). “Her full diary of the voyage does not mention meeting Vosper or Willes, satisfying me they met only on the night of the tragedy.-1 believe Vosper felt ill after drinking champagne, probably after whisky, and that he fell when leaning far from the window to get air. There is no question ot jealousy.”

Mr Frank Vosper, a noted playwright and stage and film actor, disappeared from the liner Paris, between New York and Plymouth. Officers of the sliip conducted an inquiry behind locked doors before the liner berthed at Plymouth. They believe Vosper fell overboard after a farewell party held in the cabin of Miss Muriel Oxford, who was “Miss Great Britain” in 1935.