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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 8, 1989,
Friend Poses For Picture Of Torso Murder Victim
AIR SECRETARY
WHO CRASHED, LAUGHED
Photographed In Her Costume
London, June 18.
An attractive blonde stood in
a photo-
BRIDEGROOM KILLED ON WEDDING EVE
Unaware that John Alfred Wick- ham, 22, a motor driver, of Linden- crescent, Kingston, Surrey, whom she was to have married had been
・ ONE OF BRITAIN'S RICHEST grapher's studio at leeds police headquarters yes-killed in a midnight car crash in BACHELORS, SIR PHILIP SAS- day, wearing the dark costume coat in which 20- which she was injured, Miss Ger
trude Lynn, 18, of Deacon-road, SOON, FIRST QOMMISSIONER years-old Ethel Wraithmell, victim of the Leeds Kingston, lay in Kingston Hospital
Torso murder, was dressed when she disappeared. deliriously calling out his name.
The girl, Ada Pearson, aged 20, of Northfield-been kept from her. He died in W. HE WAS FIFTY. HE COM- terrace, Leeds, was playing her part in an attempt ceived in a collision with a tree on by camera and artist's brush to reconstruct a life-Kingston by-pass while driving like photograph of her closest friend.
OF WORKS, DIED RECENTLY
AT HIS HOME IN PARK-LANE,
:
BINED MANY INTERESTS IN
HIS ACTIVE LIFE POLITICS,
ART, SPORT, FLYING, SAYS A
BRITISH JOURNAL.
A picture of Ethel Wraithmell's head after death is the only photograph the police have so far. This has handicapped them in their efforts to clear He took great care of his health. up her movements and the mystery of where she He never drank, and smoked little. lived in the last three days before her death. About a month ago be had influ- When the experiment of recon-7in., stiff build, black curly hair, enza, which developed into a strep-structing a photograph was sug- clean-shaven, sallow complexion, tococcus infection of the lung.
Sir Philip kept fit by playing squash winter and summer at the Bath Club, tennis and golf.
foreign or Jewish looking.
News of her ́ fiance's death had
the same hospital from injuries re-
Miss Lynn and her brother home after a day in the country,
Less than half
the wedding place, the girl's father, panied by her two sisters, called at Kingston register office and can- celled the ceremony.
an hour before was to have taken
accom
a.m. last Tuesday week outside a big store in the, Headrow, Leeds.
AN ORIENTAL? They have also issued another appeal to the writer of an anony mous letter to Supt. Craig, offering
dress were kept secret.
He possessed a great love for thing to help to bring Ethel's mur-the West Yorkshire joined information if her name and ad-
the beautiful things in life. Art, pictures, period furniture, decora- tive schemes and flowers were all enthusiasms with him, He considered to be one of the finest connoisseurs of art.
was
He owned three beautiful houses, at Park-lane, Trent Park and Port Lympne. At Park-lane he kept most of his valuable collection of pictures by Gainsborough, Velas- quez, Sargent and Jose-Marie Sert. At Park-lane one of his most trea- sured possessions was the original of Earl Haig's famous Army order of March 1918, in which he told the troops they were fighting with their backs to the wall. When the order was issued Sir Philip was Earl Haig's secretary.
gested, Ada, who is in build almost identical to the murdered girl, "Dressed in. dark clothing, volunteered to help. "It was an muffler, and no hat. He is believed ordeal putting on that costume," to have left Leeds on June 6." she said to the "Sunday Dispatch" This week-end every hiker and afterwards. "But I would do any cyclist i
big new effort to derer to justice.
find leg and arm missing from "I tried on her shoes, but they the torso. were too big for me, I knew Ethel The police have not yet traced a Wraithmell as Shirley? She was woman, dressed in blue, who was a close friend. Only a week before seen with Ethel Wraithmell at 7.30 she was found dead she offered to give me her costume as she said someone had promised hér another.
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If the police are satisfied that the reconstructed photograph is a faithful likeness, it will be given widespread públicity.
Superintendent Craig, chief of Leeds C.I.D., issued the following statement last night:
"The police are anxious to get into touch with a man whose name is Albert Davis-or- Davies, known, as "Curly" or "Darkie.” ·
Secret London Factory
HIKERS IN SEARCH. "Aged 25 to 27, 5ft, 5in, or 5ft.
FORGERY GANG HITTING THE
BANKS HARD
countries.
London, June 18, and notes now being put into Continental police and bankers | circulation throughout Continentāl are interested in the operations of a forgery factory known to be situated in London; but, so far, its site has not been located.
The mystery factory is believed to be responsible for the produc- tion of forged credit notes, usually on small Continental banks or financial agencies, now circulating
n greater numbers.
These forgeries are said to be of exceptional quality, and it is not easy to detect them.
CUSTOMS EVADED Even in Paris and other large Continental towns, where the notes usually pass through the hands of expert "tellers," the distributors of the forgeries have achieved much success.
Another point troubling the in- A vestigators is the manner in which the forgers get their notes in bulk across frontiers, deapite, the vigil. ance of the usual Customs staffs.” Foreign banking interests, have Special officers of the French lost considerably, and strong mea-Surete Nationale, and correspond- sures are being taken,
ing organigations in – Switzerland, While they are certain about Holland and Belgium, have been at London being “the centre of the work for some time trying to pick redit note forgery, the polic and up the trail c the distributing hankers are less certain about the agents, but so far, have not suc- source of the forged Bank of Eng-ceeded in making arreste.
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