BUNGALOW MYSTERY.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 38, 9 May 1924, Page 3

BUNGALOW MYSTERY.

LONDON, May 6. Events are moving rapidly in the bungalow mystery. The detectives last evening took Patrick Mahon to Eastbourne, and made a definite charge. The police say that the victim was aged 28, and had been living at a.woman’s club in the west of London. She had been identified by means of a skirt found at ihe bungalow. Her club mates say that Miss Kaye was a pretty and sweet natured girl, wildly happy at her prospective marriage, and was never visited by men. Tennis was her chief hobby. A motor driver and other people at Eastbourne arc emphatic that the second woman, who is described as dark, and whose sobriquet is “The Countess,’’ was Mahon’s mother, who was living at Liverpool. Mahon had been living with his wife and daughter at Richmond. He is an Irishman, and a well known member of the Mid-Surrey Bowling Club. He was playing at the club on Thursday, and was in unusually good spirits, and seemed very happy. Mahon was remanded to Hailsham, where the inquest on Miss Kaye opens to-morrow. Mahon entered the dock, and when charged he replied: “I have already made a statement which clearly shows it was not murder.’’

It is now revealed that Miss Emily Kaye, the girl murdered at Eastbourne, lived at Manchester until two years ago She was a capable shorthand writer and typist, and was employed by Beith, Ste venson and Co., accountants, where she was private secretary to Mr Donald Beith, father of Jan Hay, the author. She was a typically pretty outdoor girl, keen at lawn tennis and a good hockey player. She later came to London, and was employed by two city firms. It was when employed by Robertson, Hill and Co., accountants, that she first met Patrick Mahon, who. is charged with the crime, and who was general manager of a soda fountain company.