BRIGHTON TRUNK MURDER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19873, 9 August 1934, Page 9

BRIGHTON TRUNK MURDER

BAFFLING PROBLEMS FOR POLICE INTERESTING EXPERT EVIDENCE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright LONDON, August 7. Tony Mancini, 28, hotel waiter, was charged under the name of Jack Notyre with the murder of Miss Violette Kaye, 42, dancer, whose body was found in a trunk at Brighton in a room Mancini had occupied. A detective produced various articles of male clothing which Dr. Roche Lynch, Home Office Analyst, in evidence, said bore human bloodstains. Witness added that a post-mortem examination showed that Miss Kaye had an overdose of a drug. He was unable to state whether the dose was fatal. Mancini was remanded. [The murder with which Mancini Is charged is known by Scotland Yard as "Trunk Crime No. 2,” to distinguish it from another murder that was discovered earlier, although, it is believed, committed later. Salient features of the two cases are: Crime No. I.—Unidentified woman s torso was found in a trunk et Brighton railway station. The legs were found in a suitcase at King’s Cross station. Mancini was questioned about this affair, but was released. Crime No. 2.—The body of Violette Kaye was found in a trunk in a vacant house in Kemp Street, Brighton. It is believed that she was murdered in a basement flat in Park Crescent, Brighton, in the latter half of May. On this discovery a warrant for Mancini’s arrest was issued. It was alleged that he had proposed to six girls in the six weeks prior to his arrest on July 18 and had been accepted by three.]