THE TWO AVIATORS

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3794, 11 August 1932, Page 5

THE TWO AVIATORS

Tangled Love Affair LANCASTER’S STORY THE DEATH OE CLARKE DAM AGI NO AI>MI SSI ON REVOLVER WAS LOADED By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Aug. 11. 9.25 a.m.) Miami. Aug. 10. Captain Lancaster, in Die witness liox. described to-day what lie called the suicide of Clarke. "1 was awakened hy a hang. 1 thought if; was a window shutting. J called our. ’What is that., linden I* I heard a gurgling noise from the bet. i leaped out, to find blood streaming from Clarke’s face and a pistol lying beside him." TALKED IT OVER Lancaster said that he and Clarke, after going to bed. talked over their tangled love affairs. He then learned for the first time that Clarke was not divorced. He advised him to toil the Whole story to Mrs, Keith Miller next day The last thing 1 heard linden say was: ‘’Bill you're the whitest man I’ve ever met." FORCED SIGNATURES Lancaster said Clarke had apparently consented to sign two suicide notes (which Lancaster lias admitted he forged), but could not do so. "f looked around the room, out in the hall and on the table. I could find no notes or anything to indicate what had happened. Then I sat down and wrote the two suicide notes. I asked Iladen if he could sign them. There was no answer, but a groan and Clarke's head moved feebly back and forth. Then I did something 1 should not have done, i took a pencil and signed the notes, one ‘Hadon’” and the other Tl.’ " THE LOADED PISTOL Lancaster told of waking Mrs. Miller. calling a doctor and Mrs. Miller bathing Clarke's head with a towel. He said (lie pistol with which Clarke was killed was one he had brought from St. Louis to replace the borrowed weapon he bad pawned. He and Clarke bad discussed the pistol and he warned Clarke that it was loaded when he placed it. on the tabic between their bods before they retired.