ENGLISH HORROR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2729, 6 May 1924, Page 3

ENGLISH HORROR.

DISMEMBERED REMAINS IN BUNGALOW. London, May 4, Scotland Yard is investigating one of the most sensational of recent murder mysteries. Owing to a smell arising from a portmanteau which a man left in a cloak room a few days ago, at Waterloo, the bag was opened in tlie presence of the police. Tf was found to contain a woman’s hloodsoaked lingerie and a blood-stained butcher’s knife to which human hair and flesh was adhering. Detectives maintained a watch for the claimant, who unsuspectingly arrived, presented his cloak room ticket and was immediately taken to the police station and questioned. As a consequence of his replies, the police searched an unoccupied bungalow behind some former coast guards’ houses in a lonely spot between Eastbourne and Laiignev and discovered in various rooms the dismembered portions of a woman’s body, some wrapped in parcels. A child’s body with a hand chopped off was discovered near by a fortnight ago. It has now been discovered that a tall, dark man, named Waller, rented flit* bungalow, furnished, early iu. April. He said lie wanted if for himself, his wife and sister-in-law, and bo took up his residence with a very pretty fair-haired young woman on April 5. An Eastbourne taxi driver says he frequently drove tlie man in and out of Eastbourne, sometimes accompanied by a fair and sometimes by a dark woman. The man always had plenty of money. Both women were pretty and refined.

]( is pointed out that the crime is not .'connected with the discovery of a woman’s leg at Wimbledon,’as two legs were found in the bungalow; also a blood-stained saw. The woman in the bungalow is unidentified and the police fear her head has been burned, but inquiries at London hotels suggest the clothing may belong to Miss Kay, who recently stayed at the Kenilworth hotel. A leather trunk found in the bungalow contained four parcels and a biscuit tin with pieces of flesh and bone wrapped in clothing. Two large metal stewpans were found in the kitchen,, and parte of a body had been boiled in these. There seems to be no doubt that two women had been staying at the bungalow, though they were never seen together. One was dark and the other light haired. Apparently the dark one was murdered ten days ago. It is understood the arrested man lured the bungalow from a lady, now travelling around the world aud paid a large sum, saying he was in London in connection with the Wembley Exhibition and wanted a seaside home for his wife and sister-iu-law. He spoke with a Canadian accent, was cultured, and had plenty of money, though no servant was kept. The neighbours believed he was on his honeymoon with the fair hob-haired woman. He was last seen leaving Eastbourne with the woman in a taxi cab on April 25.

The police do not connect the child’s body recently found, with the bungalow crime.