MIAMI SENSATION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 April 1932, Page 5

MIAMI SENSATION

(Press. Assn.-

EVIDENCE PROINTS TO SUICIDE OF AIRMAN LOVER LANCASTER NOT YET CLEARED

-By Telegraph— Copyright).

Rec. April 24, 5.0 prm. MIAMI (Florida), Saturday. Mrs. Keith Miller, the noted Australian aviatrix, has been virtually exonerated in regard to the shooting of her fiance, Haden Clark, an air pilot, who was found badly wounded on his bed on Wednesday. She, howeyer, will be further questioned by the State Attorney, Mr. Vernon Hawthorne, in'liis attempt to clear up the ease. '• • ■ - v •' Both Mrs. Miller and Captain Lancaester, the British pilot who has been associated with her in most of her long flights, were detained in Miami County gaol on Friday. Captain Lancaster and Clark slept on the porch of the house in which Mrs. Miller also lived. Mr. Hawthorne said that he was convinced that Mrs. Miller was in no way connected with the actual shooting, but he said he intended to question her and Captain Lancaster to try to 'determine whether Clark committed suicide or was slain. Mrs. Miller was released from gaol under guard on Thursday night to attend the funeral seryices. Mr. Hawthorne would not say that Captain Lancaster had been cleared of all the. blame. Clark was fatally wounded in bed a few hours after he and Mrs. Miller told Captain Lancaster of their plans to be married. Mrs. Miller's acquaintance with Clark' turned into love as he wroto the story of her life. At the funei-al service Mrs. Miller met Mrs. Ida Clark, professor of journalism at the University of Maimi, the mother of the dead man, and the women embraced and wept. Investigators said that notes left by Clark pointed conclusively to suicide. Mrs. Clark agreed and said that her son had financial worries. Mrs. Miller and Captain Lancaster were emphatic in their assertions that Clark took his own life. Letters found by the investigators from Mrs. Miller and Clark to Captain Lancaster told of their intentions to marry and in an an swering -telegram, Captain Lancaster on Sunday, told the "two kids" that he wished them every happiness. He urged that they defer the marriage till his return. He arrived on Wednesday night.