EASTBOURNE MURDER.
'rn lo crown's lovmioxcK. I.ONDO.V. .May 2=5. A cfiHtimiatioii of Million's st:it«*nif»it sn,vs:— ’’Realising ilia consequences on the following morning 1 wont iij> to [London, Imnglit a knife and saw and returned to ('rumbles. On Oood Kriduv I severed the legs and head, |n't
the various parts into a trank and lilt it locked in the hedroom. I returned to C'rumhles several times, puzzling how to dispose ol the body. I Inrthei cut up portions of the body and boiled .some anil placed others in a hag. I later threw them front the train window between London and Richmond and as ' hadn’t disoos*d of till poitions I.continued the journey to Reading and threw out the remainder on the following morning. 1 returned to 1 the London doakroom of the Waterloo station with the hag containing the blood stained clothing.” Counsel added that tin- Spilshury discoveries at Crumbles indicated that the deceased was enceinte. >lnhon was remanded. •W Tn presenting the case for the Crown, the Prosecutor said that Kaye gave tnc* accused four one hundred pound notes, three of which were cashed in a false name ; the last one two days’ before Kav’s death. The fourth had not yet been found. The accused said lie went into franc speculation with Kaye, towards which he subscribed one hundred sterling, but there was no trace of this in Mahon’s banking account. A sister of Kaye said the murdered woman was thirty-eight. She - identilied her sister’s clothing and some belongings of clubmutes. It would he shown in evidence that Kave was a woman capable ol very deep ioeling. She was very much in love with Mnit would also lie shown that Malum bought the knife and saw on the 12th. of April and not on the 17th. of April as he stated..'Me met Miss l)uuVan mi the 10th. of April and the next ,|ay lie invited her to go to the bungalow at Kastor.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1924, Page 3
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323EASTBOURNE MURDER. Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1924, Page 3
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