Moat Farm Mystery.

Southland Times, Issue 19034, 30 April 1903, Page 2

Moat Farm Mystery.

TMK UODY MISS HOLLAND'S

Initod Press Association. By Klecuic Telegraphr-Coi>yi'gh'

LONDON, April LS

Tlx: clothing on the corpse of a woman found in a lilled-in ditch on Moat Farm has been identilied as that of the missing Miss Cainille Tfolhuid.

ilSnniuol U. DoUfffll. who is si> years of age and un Army pensioner, vent to Saffron Wai den three or four >curs ago with Miss Holland, an elderly lady of considerable nieiuifl. They s-tayed in furnished. apartments there for ihreo

moiuhs, ami then took over Moat I- ;>riu and went to live there. In March, lftSK*. Miss Holland disappeared, and nothing hus since been heard of her. She had un. acoount with a hank, and after she disappeared her bank account was operated on to the extent of £4000. The money was drawn in her name by mean*. it is alleged, Of forged documents, and tho polico had lately been searching for Dougul. who they suspected had something l ° do with the forgeries. Shortly before the Bank of England closed on lHth March, a man presented himself and tabled notes, requesting that they might be cashed. Kxamining tho notes, their numbers arrested the attention of the clerk, and he asked the man's name, which he gave as Sydney Dunv'Mi-. of Moat House, Claveriiitf, Hs-

sox. l'".ii(|Uiries regarding the notes resulted in Detective-linspector Cox, who was on duty a-t the bank, being called in. The situation being explained, the Inspector sain : "Your name. I think* is 'Samuel Herbert Dougal," ami \..\e nifin iidniittetl that it was. "Well." said the Inspector, "we havo reason to believe that the notes yo» have just tendered are proceeds of a forgery, and you must accompany me to the police station " On the way to the headquarters of the detective department. Dougal bolted, but was recaptured, .wid in his possession were found notes and gold to the amount of over £")<>(>. He denjfd any knowledgf of Miss Holland's wher.eubouls 1