THE EASTBOURNE CRIME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19166, 8 May 1924, Page 7

THE EASTBOURNE CRIME

MAHON FORMALLY CHARGED. MURDERED GIRL’S HISTORY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 6. 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 that the victim was 28 years of age. She had been living at a woman’s club in West London. She was identified by means of a skirt found at tho bungalow. Her club mates say that Miss Kaye was a 'pretty and sweetnature d girl, and was wildly happy over her prospective marriage. She was never visited by men. It Iras further been revealed that she lived in Manchester until two years ago. She was a capable shorthand writer and typiste, and was employed by Messrs Beith', Stevenson, and Co., accountants, where she was private secretary to Mr Donald Beith. 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 she was employed by Messrs .Robertson, Hill, and Co., accountants, that she first met Mahon, who was general manager ot a soda fountain company. Tho girl wrote to Mrs Beilby at the beginning of April. A motor driver and other persons at Eastbourne are emphatic that there was a second dark woman, whose sobriquet was “The Countess.” Mahon’s mother is living at Liverpool. Mahon had been living with his wife and daughter at Richmond. He is an Irishman, and is a well-known member of the Mid-Surrey Bowling Club. He was playing at the club on Thursday, and was .n unusually good spirits, and seemed very happy.—A. and N.Z. Cable. RESULT OF POLICE INQUIRIES. DEFINITE THEORY EVOLVED. LONDON, May 7. (Received May 7, at 5.5 p.m.) The police have discovered nearly all the bones of Miss Kaye’s head, and have also evolved a definite theory of how she met her death.—A. and N.Z. Cable. MAHON REMANDED. DECLARATION OF INNOCENCE. LONDON, May 6. Mahon was remanded to appear at Hailsham, where the inquest on Miss Kaye will be opened to-morrow. He entered the dock, and when charged replied : “ I have already made a statement which clearly shows that I was not the murderer. ’ ’—Reuter.