BUNGALOW MURDER
VICTIM KNOWN AS PRETTY, SWEET-NATURED GIRL.
WHERE IS DARK WOMAN?
United Press Association—Copyright LONDON, May 0. Events are moving rapidly in connection with the Eastbourne bungalow mystery. Detectives this evening took Mahon to Eastbourne, where they made a definite charge. The police say the victimjt who was aged twenty-eight, has been living at a women’s club in West London, and was identified by means of a shirt found in .the bungalow. Her club mates say Kaye was a pietty, sweet-natured girl, wildly happy over her prospective marriage. She was never visited by men. -Tennis was her chief hobby. A motor driver and other people at Eastbourne arc emphatic that < there was a second, dark woman whose soubriquet was “The Countess.” Mahon’s mother is living at Liverpool. Mal.mn has been living with his wife and daughter at Richmond. Ho is an Irishman, a well-known member of the Mid-Surrey Bowling Chib, and was plqying at the club on Thursday in his usually good spirits. Ho seemed very happy.-—A. and N.Z O.A.
LONDON, May 6
Mahon was remanded to Hailsham, whore an inquest on Miss Kaye opens to-morrow. Mahon entered the dock, and when charged said: “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. wns a capable shorthand writer and typiste and was employed by Beith, Stevenson and Co., accountants, where she was private secretary to Donald Beith.
Ivayo was a typical pretty outdoor girl, a keen lawn „ tennis and hockey player. Later she came to London and was employed by two city firms. It was when employed by Robertson, Hill and Co., accountants, she first met Mahon, who was general manager of the Soda Fountain Co. The girl wrote to Mrs.Beilby at, the beginning of April. LONDON, May 7. The police have discovered nearly all the bones of the woman Kaye’s head, and have also evolved a definite theory as to how she met her death. —A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9799, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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