A SENSATIONAL MURDER

Te Puke Times, 9 May 1924, Page 3

A SENSATIONAL MURDER

ANOTHER EASTBOURNE TRAGEDY. London, May 5, Scotland Yard is investigating one of the most sensational of recent murder mysteries. Owing to the smell arising from a portmanteau which a man left in the cloakroom at Waterloo Station a few days ago, the bag was opened in the presence of the police. It was found to contain a woman’s blood soaked lingerie, and a blood stained butcher’s knife, to which human hair and flash were adhering. Detectives maintained a watch for the claimant of the portmanteau, In due course he unsuspectingly arrived and presented a cloak ticket. He was immediately taken to a police station and questioned. In consequence of the man’s replies the police searched ao unoccupied bungalow behind the former coastguards- house, in a lonely spot, between Eastbourne, <he famous Sussex watering place and.Lingney, They discovered in various rooms dismembered portions of a woman's body, Some were wrapped up in parcels.

It has now been discovered that a tall, dark man named Waller’ , rented the bungalow, furnished early in April He said he wan’ed it for himself, his wife and his sister-in-law. He tco< up his resilience at the bungalow with a very pretty fair-haired you n g wo man on Ap r i 15. An Eastbourne taxi driver says that he frequently drove the man into and out of Eastbourne, Sometimes he was accompanied by the fair woman, and sometimes by a dark one. He always had plenty of money. Both women were pretty and refined. London, May, 6.

Event* are moving rapidly in connection With the Eastbourne bungalow mvstery, in which the dismembered remains of a woman were found in an unoccupied bunga’ow situated in a lonely spot between Eastbourne and Larignev. Detectives this evening took Mahon to Eastbourne, where they made a definite charge The police say the victim was aged 28 years, and has been living at a woman’s club in the West End of London. She was identified by means of a skirt found in the bungalow. Her ciubmates say that Miss Kaye was a pretty, sweet-natured girl, and wildly happy over her prospective marriage. She was never visited by men, tennis being her chief hobby. The police are digging up the bungalow gardens in the hope of discovering the victim's missing head. No trace has yet been found of the dark-haired woman who visited the bungalow. London, May 7 When Mahon was formally charged at liailshsm with the murder or .Emily Kaye ho replied "It was riot murder." He was remanded. The public excitement wa=i re mar liable. People motored Jo Hails ham from all parts of the country Women and men elmbed the high wall ar.d rushed the doors of the courts until two hundred were crushed into seats intended for fifty. Accused showed no trace of emotion.