HIS BROTHER’S HONOR

Evening Star, Issue 19658, 10 September 1927, Page 4

HIS BROTHER’S HONOR

BOURNEMOUTH MYSTERY SOLVED MURDERER FOUND DROWNED. Press Association — By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 9. A dramatic solution of the mystery of Bournemouth Sands is repealed by the 1 Daily Express.’ It is recalled that Arthur Rank, aged 36, of fine physique and good character, was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey iu 1919 for the murder of his sister-in-law after a fruitless plea of insanity, Rank declaring that while they were in the house alone the woman made a suggestion that so angered him that he shot her in order to save his brother’s honor. For some unexplained reason Rank was not hanged, and his sentence was computed to imprisonment for life, but he was released last May after serving only eight years. Ho wont to South London to live with his brother, who in the meantime had remarried. Rank on Avgust 28 left the house on a supposed holiday. Two days later a man walking on tho beach at Bournemouth saw a body dressed in a bathing suit lloating in the sea. The police failed to trace his identity, and an inquest was held on the man and a verdict of found drowned was returned. Then, when it seemed inevitable that he would be buried in a nameless pauper’s grave, a laundry mark clue led to communication with his brother, who journeyed to Bournemouth and recognised the face of the man who hud committed murder to save his honor.