AN AMAZING STORY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2739, 29 May 1924, Page 4

AN AMAZING STORY.

EASTBOURNE AUJRDER

ALAHON’S STATEMENT.

TELLS OF A VIOLENT STRUGGLE. London, May 22. One of the most amazing stories of stark horror was unfolded at the Hailsham Police Court when the Crown opened its ease in the Easfborue murder ease against. AL'nhon. The Crown counsel read an astonishing series of Alahon’s signed voluntary statements to the police, from which it transpired that he met. Miss Kaye in the course of business, last August. She knew he was married, nevertheless invited him to take her out. She was a capable and educated woman. Ma - lion was surprised to find on their first outing that she was a most affectionate woman of the world. Intimacy then took place and continued for several months. It was at her request that they took the Crumbles bungalow. They went there on April 12th and stayed for a few days. On the evening of the 15th they quarrelled over his refusal to agree to her suggestions that he should take her abroad. In a most violent temper she threw an axe, which hit him a glancing blow.

“Then I saw red,” declares the prisoner's statement. “We fought and struggled. She was a big strong woman, and appeared quite mad with anger and rage. During the struggle we overturned a chair, and her head struck an iron coal scuttle which appeared to stun her. It was midnight. I attempted to revive her for hours but found she was dead. Realising the consequences the following morning lie went up to London, bought a knife and saw and returned to Crumbles. “On Good Friday I severed the legs and head and put the various parts into a trunk and left it locked in a bedroom. I returned to Crumbles several times, puzzling how to dispose of the body. I further cut up portions of the-body, boiled some and placed others in a bag, and later threw them from a train window between London and Richmond. As I hadn’t disposed of all the portions I continued the journey to Reading, and threw out the remainder. On the following morning I returned to the London cloakroom, Waterloo station, with a bag containing bloodstained clothing.” Counsel added that Dr Spilsbury’s discoveries at Crumbles indicated that the deceased was enceinte. Mahon was remanded.

In presenting the case for (he Crown, the prosecutor said Afiss Kaye gave accused four £IOO notes; three were cashed in a false name, the last one two days before Miss Kaye’s death. The fourth was not yet found. Accused said lie went into a franc speculation with Afiss Kaye, towards which lie subscribed £100; hut there was no trace of this in Million’s banking account. A sister of Miss Kaye said t.lm murdered woman was 38. She identified her sister’s clothing and some of the belongings of club mates would be shown in evidence. Miss Kaye was a woman capable of very deep feeling. She was very much in love with Mahon.

It would also be shown that .Million bought a knife and saw on April 12 and not April 17 as he stated. He met Aliss Duncan on April 10, and the next day invited her to go to a bungalow at Easter.