MURDER CHARGES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 195, 13 May 1924, Page 7

MURDER CHARGES

INVESTIGATIONS AT EASTBOURNE DRAMATIC SURPRISES ANTICIPATED By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. London, May 11. Detectives overhauled the parish rubbish tip at Eastoourne and recovered the charred bones of a woman’s skull, with fragments of the jaw and a blackened gold tooth plate similar to that worn by Miss Kaye, th© girl Patrick Mahon is accused of having murdered. The “Sunday News” publishes a lengthy statement by a friend of Miss Kayo, saying that she admitted an infatuation for a man whom she did not name. She felt sure that nothing but misery and suffering would result, yet she must go on with it. “I belong to the cave man age,” she said. The narrative suggests that she discovered that the man was already married. . , . . The police are extending their investigations to other South Coast resorts, and there are rumours that dramatic surprises are pending. 'The police have also been looking for another missing girl, who, according to the “Sunday Express,” has been found. It is believed that she made a statement to the police which throws light on the Eastbourne murder.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BYFLEET POISONING CASE STORY OF COUNSEL FOR THE CROWN London, May 11. Counsel for the Crown told a remarkable story at tho inquest concerning the Bylleet poisoning case, about tho relations between Mrs. Jones and Vaquier. Mrs. Jones, he said, visited liiarritz on January 7, and met the accused, who was an hotel wireless ojierator. Later she accompanied him t© another hotel, and lived there as his wife. Afterwards they stayed at Paris and London hotels under the same conditions. When a housemaid at the Hotel Russel remonstrated with Mrs. Jones she asserted that she was Vaquier’s wife. Vaquier, on February 14, arrived at the Blue Anchor Hotel in Byfleet, and afterwards accompanied Mrs. Jones everywhere. Tho hotel staff commented on their relations, but Mrs. Jones refused to leave. Her husband was a heavy drinker, and on the mornings ; after his bouts he was in the habit of I taking salts. A party was held in th© : hotel on the night of March 28. Next morning Vaquier was seen to move a bottle on the shelf where Jones kept the salts. Later Jones took the salts, and exclaimed, “My God, they are "bitter.” His wife examined tho dregs and said the salts had been tampered with. While Jones was in his death agony, Vaqnier, on tho pretext that it was for the doctor, obtained possession of the salts bottle, which Mrs. Jones found empty and recently washed out. Vaquier asked: “Is he ill?” and she replied, “No, dead. You did it!” A week later she alleged that Vaquier admitted, “I did it, Mabs, for you.” A chemist gave evidence that Vaquier, on March 1, bought sufficient strychnine to kill four people. Tho inquiry was adjourned.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.