CHARGE AGAINST DOUGALL.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 880, 2 May 1903, Page 3

CHARGE AGAINST DOUGALL.

By Telegraph-- Pross Association— Copyright Received 10.15 p.in., May 1. London, May 1. Dougall has been charged with tho murder of Miss Holland, at Moat Farm.

At Saffron Walden, on March 19th, Samuel Herbert JDougal, an army penaioner, was charged with tho forgery of a cheque, purported to bo sigucd by Mias Camille C. Holland, on August 28tb, 1902. Mystery surrounds tho fate of Miss Camilla Holland. She was a lady, possessed of some wealth, and belonging to a well-known family residing at Liverpool ind Maidnvalo, London, who disappeared from Clavoring, in Essex, four years ago. Sho had lived at an isolated moated farmhouse with Uougal. It appears that when they first came to Saffron Walden, od January 26th, 1899, they lived together in furnished apartments at tho houso of Mrs Wiskens, Cross street, for about thi'co months. While here the}' purchased the Moat Farm, Clavering, and aftorwards went to livo thoro. At this time Mias Holland, who was a lady of about sixty, is said to have possessed botween jEdOOO and U6OOO. Until early in 1899 she maintained frequent correspondence with her relatives and friends, but sinco March, 1899, nothing whatover has been hoard of her by any of them, and all efforts on the part of tho police to traco her have been unsuccessful. Bince that date, however, it is alleged, her money has boon drawn from the bank. Tho polieo suspected that Miss Holland had been murdered, and began investigations at tho Moat Farm. Dougal, during bis tenure on the farm, had put corn land into grass, planted trees, kept poultry, and stocked tho moat with rainbow trout. A police officer who went to tho farm on March 20, declared that it would be impossible to drag this piece of water, so full of boles was it. It is about i)5 feet broad, and entirely surrounds tho house, which, therefore, stands upon a little island, the sole means of approach to * which is a brick bridge. Tho farmhouse, in fact, is one of the typo that still lingers in Essex, and has a high-pitched, titled roof, with many windows in the front. Wbns with its pink plaster, neat curtains, and iur of tidiness, it lias by no means a gloomy appearance, though tho farm buildings, in a group near by, and the condition of the occupation road rather spoak of neglect. The farm stands alone, with no neighbors nearer than a farmhouse at llickling, while Clavering village is three miles off, and Newport, the nearost station, is half an hour’s drive. The water had to be run off from the moat to solve, if possible, the mystery of the missing lady’s disappearance, search having beon mado for her in vain by her relatives and the police.