A GHASTLY CRIME.

Wairarapa Age, 6 May 1924, Page 5

A GHASTLY CRIME.

WOMAN KILLED AND BOILED. IN EASTBOURNE BUNGALOW. (Press Association —Copyright.) (Received 8.20 p.m.) London, May 4.—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 and was found to contain a woman’s blood-soaked lingerie and a bloodstained butcher’s knife to whicl» human hair and flesh were adhering.

Detectives maintained a watch for the claimant, who unsuspectingly arrived, presented the cloakroom ticket, and was immediately taken to the police station and questioned.

In consequence of his replies the police searched an unoccupied bungalow behind the former coastguards’ houses in a lonely spot between Eastbourne and Langnoy, and discovered in various rooms the dismembered portions of a woman’s body, some wrapped up in parcels. A child’s body with a hand chopped off was discovered nearby a fortnight ago. It is now discovered that a tall dark man named Waller rented the bungalow furnished early in April. He said he wanted it for himself and wife and sister-in-law, and he took up residence with a very pretty fair-haired young woman on April 5. An Eastbourne taxi-driver says he frequently drove the man in and out to Eastbourne, sometimes accompanied by a fair and sometimes by a dark young woman. He always had plenty of money. Both womei* were pretty and refined. . It is pointed out that the crime is not connected with the recent discovery of a woman’s leg at Wimbledon, as two legs were found in the bungalow. A bloodstained saw* was also found. | The murder of Irene Munro in August,- 1920, took place a few hundred yards from the bungalow.—(A. and N.Z.) I *-* j ANOTHER CRIPPEN. I probably*a*"canadian. (Received 8.40 p.m.) I London, May s.—The crime created a public sensation, recalling the Crip- . pen case. The woman in the bungalow is still unidentified and the police fear . that the head was burned. Enquiries at London hotels suggest that the clothing may belong to Miss E. Kay, who recently stayed at Kenilworth Hotel, Wilmington Square. A leather trunk found in the bungalow contained four parcels and a biscuit tin with pieces of flesh and bone wrapped in clothing. Two large metal stewpans found in the kitchen contained parts of the body that had beon boiled in them. Two women had been staying at the bungalow’ one dark, the other lighthaired. Apparently the dark one was murdered 10 days ago. The arrested man spoke with a Canadian accent and was cultured and had plenty of money He was last seen leaving Eastbourne with a woman, in a taxi cab on April 25. | The police do not connect the child’s body, recently found,- with the bungalow crime.—(A. and N.Z.)