CRUMBLES MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 171, 21 July 1924, Page 5

CRUMBLES MURDER.

PATRICK MAHON TO DIE. AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL. SATYR TO MEET FATE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—CopjrishtJ (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 20. 111". Justice Avory, in sentencing Patrick Million to death for murdering Emily Beilby Kayo at the officers' house, The Crumbles, l'evonsey, Eastbourne, said: "The jury arrived at the only proper conclusion on. the evidence, not knowing that you had already served a period lor a crime of violence. There is no question but that you deliberately designed the death of this woman.' . The newspapers publish the life story of Mahon, showing that he belonged to a humble and respectable Liverpool family, Mahon was lor many years a Sunday school teacher, and committed his first crime in 1911, at the age of i'l years, when he was bound over on being charged with forging his employer's cheuqe. The following year he was sentenced to 12 months in gaol for forging and uttering. Finally, in 1916, lie was sentenced to five years for wounding a servant girl, who' surprised him in attempting a burglary in a bank. Mahon had an attractive personality, and was a good conversationalist and salesman. For years Mahon carried on many affairs with women, with ■whom he stayed in the most expensive hotels. He was a voracious reader of French novels. "The Life of Landru' , was found in The Crumbles bungalow, where Emily Kayo was murdered. The suggestion is that Mahon was trying to imitate Landru's methods. M After live and a-lialf hours in the witness box, during three of which he was subjected to the most severe crossexamination, Mahon completed his evidence. He frequently broke down and cried loudly. At the end he was in a state of collapse. Mahon admitted that he bought a knife and a saw prior to the death of the deceased, and not subsequently, as he had previously affirmed.— (A. and "S.Z. and Reuter.)