BRIGHTON TRUNK MYSTERY

Evening Star, Issue 21900, 11 December 1934, Page 9

BRIGHTON TRUNK MYSTERY

CASE AGAINST NOTYRE THE TRIAL OPENS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 10. (Received December 11, at 11.10 a.m.) The trunk in which Miss Kaye’s body was found, and the hammerhead with which the prosecution alleged she was killed, were exhibited at the Lewes Assizes at the opening of the trial of Jack Notyre, who pleaded not guilty. Mr J. D. Cassels, prosecuting, said that Miss Kaye was last seen alive on May 10 in the Skylark Cafe at Brighton, where Notyre, under the name of Maucini, was working as a waiter; Miss Kaye’s sister (Olive Watts) received a telegram purporting to be from Miss Kaye, dated Brighton, May 11, saying that she was going abroad. Notyre afterwards said that Miss Kaye had gone to Paris, and gave Miss Ateril (employed at the Skylark Cafe), some clothing, saying that Miss Kaye had not taken it. Mr Cassels related alleged conversations, Notyre declaring: “ The missus went away after I bashed her,” adding: “What’s the good of fisting a woman. You should slosh hex' with a hammer, like I did.” Notyre slept for two months in a basement in Kemp street beside the trunk containing the body. Eventually he left, saying that Kemp street would soon be famous, and that his picture would soon appear in the newspapers. A furniture salesman, in evidence, said he sold the trunk to Nqtyre. A handwriting expert, giving evidence, said the printed capitals in which the original telegram to Mrs Watts was written were identical with those on the menus Notyre wrote at the Skylark Cafe.

The hearing was adjourned. [A cheap brown fibre trunk which was left at Brighton station was opened by railway officials, and was found to contain a female body without head and limbs. Later the police discovered in a house in Kemp Street, Brighton, the head and arms of the torso packed in a second large trunk containing the body of another woman who had been killed by a hammer blow on the back of the head. The second victim was Violette Kaye, a professional dancer. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Tony Manciui, alias Cecil England, alias Jack Notyre, aged twenty-eight, known as the “ Sea-front Romeo.” Mancini was apprehended and charged with the murder of Violette Kaye.]