MURDER OF TYPISTE

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1924, Page 5

MURDER OF TYPISTE

MAHON DENIES GUILT.

HEAD BONES FOUND. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ■■ LONDON, May 6. Patrick Mahon, general manager of the Soda Fountain Company, has been charged with the Eastbourne murder. He was remanded to Hailsham where the inquest on the woman Kaye opens to-morrow.

Mahon entered the dock and when charged, replied: “I have already made a statement which clearly shows I was. not the murderer.”.

It is now revealed that Emily Kaye the murdered girl, lived in Manchester until two years ago. She was 28 years ol,d, a capable shorthand writer and typiste, and was employed by Beath, Stevenson and Company, accountants, where she was private secretary to Donald ’ Beath. 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 the Robertson Hill Company, accountants, that she first met Mahon. The girl wrote to Mrs. Beilby (her cousin’s wife) at the beginning of April. The police have discovered nearly all the bones of the victim’s head. They also have evolved a definite theory as to how she met her death.

SCENES IN COURT.

“DARK WOMAN” FOUND.

LONDON, May 7.

When Mahon was formally charged at Hailsham with the murder of Emily Kaye, he replied: “It was not murder." He was remanded. Public excitement was remarkable. People motored to Hailsham from all parts of the country. Women and men climbed the high wall and rushed the doors of the Court until two hundred crushed into seats intended for 50.

The accused showed no trace of emotion.

The final sensation of the day was the announcement that the police had traced the dark woman and that' she would give evidence at the inquest to-morrow. It is stated that there is no mystery about her movements. ■ She states she was driven to the bungalow on Good Friday, some days after the doctors believe that Kaye died. After Mahon motored her back to Eastbourne, Mahon went on to the Plumpton races.