EASTBOURNE MYSTERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19008, 8 May 1924, Page 5

EASTBOURNE MYSTERY

RAPID DEVELOPMENTS FURTHER DISCOVERIES BY POLICE LONDON, May 6. Events are moving rapidly in connection with the Eastbourne bungalow mystery. Detectives this evening took Mahon to Eastbourne, where they made a definite charge. The police say that the victim, who was aged 28, had been living at a women’s club in West London, and was identified by means of a skirt found in the bungalow. Her club mates say that Miss Kaye was a pretty, sweet-natured girl, wildly happy over her prospective marriage. She was never visited by men. Tennis was her chief hobby. The motor driver and other people at Eastbourne were cmpahtic that there was a second dark woman, whose soubriquet was “the countess.” Mahon’s mother is living at Liverpool. Mahon had been living with his wife and daughter at Richmond. He is an Irishman, and a well-known member of the Mid-Surrey Bowling Club. He was playing at the club on Thursday in unusually good spirits, and seemed very happy. POLICE EVOLVE DEFINITE THEORY Received Mav 7, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 7. The police have discovered nearly all the bones of Miss dvaye’s head and have also evolved a definite theory of how she met her death. FURTHER REVELATIONS LONDON, May 6. It is now revealed that Emily Kaye, the murdered girl, lived in Manchester until two years ago. She was a capable shorthand writer and typistc, and was employed by Beith, Stevenson and Co., accountants, where she was private secretary to Donald Beith. Miss Kaye was a typical pretty outdoor girl, a keen lawn tennis and hockey player. Later she came to London, and was employed in two city firms. It w..s when employed by Robertson, Hill and Co., 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 DECLARES HIS INNOCENCE LONDON, May 6. 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 I was not the murderer. ’ ’