MERELY A PAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 122, 18 May 1932, Page 2

MERELY A PAL

STARVATION AND ROMANCE

MRS. MILLER S STATEMENT “It was not a love triangle. I w-’.s alone in the world, not having a place to go or anything to eat. I loved UadeH Clarke/’ said Mrs Keith Miller, in an interview at Miami (U.S.A. '> when speaking of the tragic death of lhe American pilot. “Captain Lancaster and 1 were merely pals. We were never in iov(./ ? continued Mrs Miller. “After he left to investigate a proposition for a LatinAmerican air. dine, Clarke and I discovered our mutual love. We were con-science-stricken and surprised, and we wrote to Captain Lancaster that we intended to many. ’’ The police claim that Clarke and Mrs

Miller contemplated marriage and that Lancaster was painfully surprised when he returned from St. Louis. That, they say, was the first he heard of this news. On the other hand, Mrs Miller told the attorney that she and Lancaster were poverty-stricken owing to the depression, and were unable to pay even .light and water hills.

Clarke’s mother is now not convinced that he committed suicide. “I will believe it if the authorities concur in that theory,’’ she says, “but it is in? comprehensible. Haden was always averse to self-killing, and as a small boy would not play with toy pistols. If he loved Mrs Mjller I djd not know of it. Haden was always Lancaster’s friend, and any quarrel between them must have occurred in the past fortnight,” added Mrs Clarke.