MURDER MYSTERY

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18067, 8 May 1924, Page 9

MURDER MYSTERY

BONES OF. HEAD FOUND. POLICE THEORY OF DEED. » (BT CABUS—PRESS ASSOCIATION COfTMOHT.) (ACSTBAIUN AND M.Z. CABUS ASSOCIATION.) (Received May 7th; 5.5 p.m.)" LONDON, May 7.\ The police have discovered nearly all the bones of Miss Kaye's head. Also they have evolved a definite theory as to how she met her death. MISS KAYE KNEW MAHON. , LONDON, May 6. It is now revealed that Emily Kaye, the v murdered girl, lived in Manchester until two years ago. She was a capable shorthand writer and typiste employed' by Beith, Stevenson and Company, accountants, where she was private secretary to Mr Donald Beith. s ' . Miss Kaye was a typical pretty outdoor girl, and a keen lawn'tennis and hockey player. Later she came to London, and was employed'by two City firms. It-was when employed by Robertson, Hill and Company, accountants, that she first met Mahdn, who was general manager of a soda fountain • company. The' girl wrote to Mrs Beilby, -her cousin, at the, beginning of April.'

PRETTY AND HAPPY. VICTIM WHO PLAYED TENNIS. (AUSTRALIAN AND H.«. -CABL* .ASSOCIATION.^ .' LONDON, May.6. Events are moving rapidly in connexion with the Eastbourne bungalow mystery. Detectives this evening took Patrick' Mahon, the detained man, to Eastbourne, where they made a definite charge. The police say the victim is Emily Beilby Kaye, aged 28, and she had been j living at a women's club in West London. She was identified by means of a skirt found at the bungalow. Club mates say that Mis Kaye was. a pretty sweet-natured girl,, wildly happy over her prospective marriage. She was never visited by men. Tennis was her chief hobby. A motor-driver -and other people at Eastbourne are emphatic that there was a second dark woman whose sobriquet was "The Countess." Mahon's mother is living at Liverpool. He has been living with his wife and daughter at Richmond;- He is; an Irishman and a well-known member of a mid-Surrey bowling club. He was playing at the dub on Thursday in unusually good spirits and seemed to be very happy. [A cablegram published yesterday morning gave the name of the detained man as Mason, not Mahon.]

MAHON CHARGED. , «I AM NOT THE MURDERER." ' (ATOTXAUAX AJTO V.I. CABLE ASIOCUTIOH.) LONDON, May 6. Mahon was remanded to Hailsham, where the inquest on Miss Kay e opens tormorrow. ; Mahon entered the dock, and, when charged, replied: "I have already made a statement which clearly shows I was not the murderer."