EASTBOURNE MURDER

Southland Times, Issue 19238, 8 May 1924, Page 5

EASTBOURNE MURDER

IDENTITY OF THE VICTIM ACCUSED DENIES HIS GUILT WHERE IS THE •‘COUNTESS’” (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) / (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 6. Events are moving rapidly in connection with the Eastbourne bungalow mystery. Detectives this evening took Patrick Mahon (not Mason, as previously cabled/ to Eastbourne, where they made a definite charge. The police say the victim was 28 years of age, aud had been living at a women’s club in West London. She has been identified by nieano of a skirt found in the bungalow. Her club mates say Miss Kaye was a pretty, sweet-natured girl, and 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 are emphatic that there was a second dark woman, whose sobriquet was “The Countess.”

Mahon’s mother is living in Liverpool. Mahon has been living with his wife and daughter at Richmond. He is an Irishman and a well-known member of the MidSurrey Bowling Club. He was playing at the Club on Thursday in unusually good spirits, and seemed very happy. It is now revealed that Emily Kaye, the murdered girl, lived in Manchester until two years ago. She was a capable shorthand writer and typiste, employed by the Beith, Stevenson Company, accountants, where she was private secretary to Mr Donald Beith. Miss Kaye was a typical pretty outdoor girl, keen on lawn tennis and a hockey player. Later she came to London, and was employed by two city firms. It was ( when she was employed by the Robertson Hill Company, accountants, that she first met Mahon, who was general manager of a soda fountain company. The girl wrote to Mrs Beilby at the beginning of April. Mahon was remanded to Hailsham, where the inquest on Miss Kaye opens to-morrow. Mahon entered the dock and, when charged, replied: “I have already made a statement which clearly shows that I was not the murderer.”