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MYSTERIOUS
DEATH IN
PERCY STREET
(Continued from Page 19.),
"The contention of the police was that the caretaker had been murdered and robbed during that night before she went to bed, that young Greenhill had done the murder, seeing that be was the only person known to have been intimate with the woman, and
that it was, moreover, proved un-
questionably that he was in the Im mediate neighbourhood of the Rubens Studios at an extraordinarily late hour of the night.
"His own secount of himself, and of that same night, could certainly not be called very satisfactory.
Mrs. Owen was a relative of his late mother's. be declared. He himself good dest of time and leisure on his was a lithographer by trade, with hands. He certainly had employed Rome of that time in taking the old woman to various places of amus-- He had on more than one on- ment. casion suggested that she should
give up mental work and come and live with him, but, unfortunately, she was
great deal imposed upon by her nephew, a man of the name of Owen.) who exploited the good-natured wo- jman in every possible way.
the
"Severely cross-examined by prosecuting counsel about this suppos- ed relative of Mr. Owen, Greenhill admitted that he did not know him- had, in fact, never
Been him.
He knew that, bis 'name wax Owen and that was all. His chief occupation consisted in sponging on the kind hearted old woman, but he only went Le see her in the evenings.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Japs Arrested in Spy Scare
NEWADI
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The five gentlemen of Japan who were arrested by Kearney, N. J. polleg after & OWA worker bad seen them take pictures near Federal shipyard, are shown being taken to police headquarters before they were released In enstody of the Japanese consul. Four of the firs are representatives of Imperial Japanese Government Railways. Map shows (X) where they made pictures of bridges near Lincoln Highway, No.-1 military
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death in that extraordinary and tragic it in the immediate future? S'pore, Penang. Bombay & Karachij ́ Marseilles & London.
"In any case, she wishes to secure it "I don't know whether at this point "Before young Greenhill was finally after her death to a young man whom Marseilles & London.
it strikes you at all, as it did both discharged one or two witnesses, were she likes, and who has no wa Love to Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London. magistrate and counsel, that there was again examined, chief among
these win her good graces.. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &a direct contradiction in this state being the foreman of the glassworks. Hull.
ment and the one made by the cashier He had turned
"That afternoon the nephew begs, at the Rubens at the Birkbeck on the subject of his Studios
at 9 o'clock, and been in entreats for more money; they have last conversation with Mrs. Owen, business all day. He averred pozi-2 row: the poor woman is in tears, Marseilles, Havre, London, am going abroad to join my nephew, tively that he did not specially notice and is only temporarily conanied by a
Antwerp & for whom I am going to keep house, any the hall that day.
| picasant visit to the theatre. was the unfortunate woman had said.
suspicious-looking individual CTOLA- ing
But, he re "At 2 o'clock in the morning young "Now Greenhill in spite of his marked with a smile. 'I don't sit and Greenhill parts from her. Two minutes nervousness and at times contradictory watch everyone who goes up and down later the nephew knocks at the door. answers, strictly adhered to his point that there was a nephew in London,
stairs. I am too busy for that He comes with a plausible tale of hav That there was a mystery In con- ing missed his last train, and aske who came frequently to see his aunt. nection with Mrs. Owen's death of for a 'shake-down' somewhere in the
The
good-natured woman that the police have remained perfect house. "Anyway, the sayings of the mur-ly convinced; whether young Greenhill suggests a sofa in one of the studion, dered woman could not be taken
as held the key of that mystery or The rest in very simple and elementary. and then quietly prepare to go to bed. evidence in law,
"With regard to the night immedi day.
they have never found out to this
The nephew annaks into his aunt's ately preceding Mrs. Owen's death, Greenhill stated that he had been with
"I could enlighten them as to the room, finds her standing in her night her to the theatre, had seen her home, anxiety at the magisterial inquiry, of violence; terrified, she staggers cause of the young Ulhographer's own; he demands money with threats and had had some supper with her but, I assure you, I do not care to brack
knocks her head in her room. Before he left ber, at the work of the police for them. WhyKet, and falls of the floor stunned,
against the 2 a.m., she had of her own accord
the nephew seeks for her keya minde him a present
Greenhill will never suf and takes possession of the £10, saying:
should IT
£800, I am a sort of sunt to you, Arthur, fer from unjust suspicions.
The young man did not reach home mise en scene is worthy of gentur.
You will admit that the subsequent to get it
Did she speak at all about
"No struggle, not the usual hideous this is last train had gone; be had to
Only the nephew of hers or about her money walk, lost his way, and wandered about accessories round a crime. affairs?' asked the
north- Hampstend for hours, Think What Ppen windows, the bitter "Again the young man hesitated, his position would have been if the easterly gale, and the heavily falling but said: "No! she did not mention worthy confectioners of Percy-street as the dead.
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"However, the magistrate granted afit been traced so far more of the earth. The police are searching holic content," he said while or Blichon and M. Tattibouet, were
weck'e adjournment.
"If I remember rightly," added the in a shawl, on her knees, doing the "After that the murderer, with
perfect presence of mind, busies him- man in the corner, "for recollect Ifront steps. was not present, the case was here ad- "Can you wonder that the young self in the house, doing the work which journed.
But the
magistrate would man turned livid, until such time as will ensure that Mrs. Owen shall not not
ball. grant
re-it was proved beyond a doubt that the be missed, at any rate, for some time, KAISER'S GRANDSON maved looking more dead than alive. murdered woman was alive hours He dusts and dies; some few hours
"Els advocate made
LIKES US. BEER. point of the fact very great after he reached the safe shelter of late he even slips
head in
shawl, and boldly allows those neighbours
who the house when the inmates arrived. word "murdered, continued the manastir to see what they believe to Was conceivable, he argued, that a
}be ́ Mrs. Owen, Tien be goes back
Two French Scientists B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for women would do that kind of work the corner, growing quite excited to her room, resumes kis normal -
now that he was approaching the
Adrift. over-night, especially as the
and quietly leaves the Was goldenouement of his story. ing to the theatre, and therefore would that the public, after the magistrate
"I know errance,
** | hotare." wish to
to dress in her smarter clothes
nes; had discharged Arthur Greenhill, were "He may have been seen.” certainly was very nice point quite satisfied to think that: the "He undoubtedly was seen by two
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Perth, West Australla. celvable as that a woman in those cir-accident-or suicide,"
house at that hour. It was "No." replied Polly, "there could be cold, the snow was falling thickly, and
Louis Ferdinand Michael EdThe motorship Tarn. which cumstances of life should, having done her work, undress beside
no question of suicide, for two very as he wore a muffer round the lower Ward Victor Adalbert Prinz von reached Fremantle from South an open window at nine o'clock in the morning distinct reason." 7,000
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"Now it seems that any amount of of astonishment.
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Brd Aug.
help to prove a conclusive alibi if only opinion, these reasons are?" he asked "That man was never seen not heard not bad at all and it's getting voyage, with the rudder smashed some time subsequent to that fatal very sarcastically,
of again?" Polly asked.
better all the time," "He has disappeared off the face of
and helpless in the open sea. Two "I think it has plenty of alco French scientists, Captain Eric de for him, and perhaps some day they will find him then society will be rid a visit to St. Louis. "Why, our abroad. There was little food and A week went by, and then the case
of one of the most ingenious men of beer in Germany does not have practically no water. The Tarn against young Greenhill was resumed.
much more alcohol. Munich lowered bost, and food and wa necded no great penetration
guard," the commented.
The young girl also was silent: at once that the prisoner looked "You believe, then, in the existence Some memory too vague as yet to per cent.”-Reuter.
of that nephew 1 more hopeful
take a definite form was persistently “Again a great dení of minor evi- "Why should I doubt it? Someone haunting her one thought was ham dence
the must have existed who was aufhelent-mering away in her brain, and playing was taken, and then came turn of the defence,
Mr. Hall, con: ly familiar with the house to go about havoc with her nerves. That thought fectioner, of Percy-street, opposite the in it in the middle of the day without was the inexplicable feeling within Rubens Studio, was called." She de attracing anyone's attention
"In the middle of the day?" be and nection with that hideous crfine which been sold by a firm of wholesale around the southern Australian A debt of more than £800 has intended to proceed to Sydney, posed that at 8 o'clock in the morning of February 2, while she was tidying with a chuckle.
she ought to recollect, something dealers in debts to a debt collec shop window, the mw the care- "Any time after: 8.30 | in the which if she could only remember
the Studios opposite, as morning," usual, on her knees, her head and body · “80 you, too, belleva in the "care-
what it was would give her the clue tor in Virginmost, Croatiafor cost. They Informed the Tarn's master that the rudder was smash- ed on November 19, eix days, bai ensure her triumph over this well- wrapped in a shawl, cleaning her front taker, wrapped up in a shawl clean. to the tragic mystery, and for once one shilling.
ing her front stepa”. he queried. conceited and sarcastic scarecrow.
efore the junk was sighted by the In "Her husband also saw Mr. Owen,But
the corner, and Mrs, Hall remarked to her hus "It never struck you, In ́ of
that the murderers was a sailors Tarn. On October 20, the junk the He was watching her through his wonderful, so complicated. so mumer-arrived at Port Hedland, after a band how thankfel she was that her training your Intercourse with me great bonerimmed spectacles, and she our were the knots which secured that three months voyage from China. own shop had tiled steps, which did must have given you that the ver-
son who carefully did all the work in could see the knuckles of his bony window frame. not need scrubbing on so cold
But Polly knew better. morning.
the
Rubens Studios, laid the fires and handa fast above the top of the table,
marely did it in fidgeting, Adgeting, Adgeting, till she mind's eye she saw those Hall, confectioner, of carried up the address, corroborated, this statement, onder to pato kimento order that she wondered if they existed mother, et rendered dougly, hessas o
Mrs. Martin, of bitter frost might really and
of angers in the world which could ful cerebral fement, effectual- and a third witness,
[dest" not that tiresome piece of string a bit of tyings i Percy-street, said that from her win ly do ile work, and Mrs.
Then suddenly, prepos of nothing, the Again
the window wamueled Polly
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vanagh window is one of them with a broken wonderful; more complies with lat given by Mr and Mrs. Fall mitless the nephew, since as aash-line Hedjupa most clentineilly she had yet, itatapita
After That the camp in any one Greenhill was at admit his endstence, would even if in with Kylece of string Che home having his breakfast at 8 o'clock were ever found, which is doubtful bred the falic that morning not only himself, but be able to prove as good an alibi,
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that the ho
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Owen wisowandered after 8 am, on wes it all forve that day since
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