MANCINI ON TRIAL
TRUNK MURDER CASE. VICTIM VANISHED. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 10. The court was crowded to hear the opening of the ease against Toni Mancini, who is charged with, the murder of Violette Karo, a too dancer, aged 42 *v ■■■ - ' . '/ Counsel.stated that Mancini had been living with the woman for a month, and on May 14 Mancini told the landlord, of their flat that Kaye had run a Way with her uncle. Accused on the same day went to other lodgings at Brighton, where later a trunk containing human remains was found. Violette Kaye was never seen again. Counsel road a statement in which .Mancini is alleged to have said that ho dii not kill,the woman. He said he found her dead in the flat, and 'became frightened, as he knew ho would be blamed, so kept the body. Counsel said that a hammer Was found in' a cupboardwhere Mancini lived, and it corresponded with the fracture in the dead woman’s head. The body in the trunk was taken in a harrow to Mancini’s second lodging-house, where it remained for two months. All the evidence pointed to Mancini’s statement being untrue; The hearing was adjourned.
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Northern Advocate, 11 August 1934, Page 9
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