THE TRUNK CRIME
MANCIWI CHARGED
MURDER OF VIOLETTE KAYE
COUNSEL OPENS CASE
United Tress Association—T!y Electric I'elegiT.ph—Copyright. (Received August 11, noon.) LONDON, August 10. A trou'dcil court at Brighton heard tho opening of tho caso against Tony Maneini, alias Jack Noytre, on a charge of murdering Violetto Kaye. Counsel stated that Maneini had lived with Viiolette Kayo for a month. Maneini on May 14 told the landlord that Violet fo had run away with her uncle." Maaeini the same day went to other lodgings in Brighton, where later the trunk containing the human remains were found. Violetto was never again seen alive.
Counsel read a statement in which Maneini allegedly said that ho did not •kill Violettc Kaye. He said he found Kaye dead in the ■ flat and became frightened. He knew he would be blamed, so he kept the body. Counsel added that a hammer head found in the cupboard where Maneini lived corresponded with the fractur- on Violette's he*d.
The boi^y in the trunk was taken in a handbarrow to jjMancini's second lodging-hosise, where it remained for twd month s. All evideneo ■ pointed to Mancini's statement being untrue.
TheIcas<! was adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 9
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193THE TRUNK CRIME Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 9
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