BUNGALOW TRAGEDY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 61, 9 May 1924, Page 5

BUNGALOW TRAGEDY

EASTBOURNE SENSATION. PUBLIC’S MORBID CURIOSITY. Press Association—Copyright. Aus-crah-an and JN’.Z. Cable Association. London, May 7. Jostling crowds gathered early in the morning at the bungalow near Eastbourne, where the inquest on Miss Kaye, the victim of the recent tragedy, opened in the drawing-room, into which crowds peered from the garden walls. The only evidence was that of a girl bookkeeper at the Kenilworth Hotel identifying Miss Kaye’s dottles. "While this evidence was taken Mahon, the accused man, sat in an armchair with his eyes covered. The Eastbourne correspondent of the Daily Express states that Mahon's statement to the ploiee would fill a whole page of the Express. It will necessitate many weeks of inquiry. SHRIEKING WOMEN. VILE WRETCH! BRUTE! CAD! (Received 11 a.m.) London, May 8. When Mahon left the inquest, the crowd was hysterical with anger. There was a wild rush at him, and the police had to board a motor car in order to force their way through hundreds of women, who raised a howl of passion, shrieking “Vile wretch!” “Brute!” “Cadi” Mahon gazed on the crowd panicstricken, and then pulled his coat over his face. Only one voice was raised in Mahon’s behalf, when a woman cried: “Poor chap! Bo fair, bo EnghsH!” It was an error of judgment on the part of the authorities to hold the inquest in the drawing room of the bungalow.