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THE OVAL TEST MURDER
by
JULIAN SYMONS
THE STORY
SO FAR PRIVATE detective
of
Francis Quarles is on the last lap of his
of investigation
the murder
umpire Charles Bowerman who died of atropine pol- soning after collapsing during the Australians first
The Innings at Oval.
Quarles was watching the match with Bower- man's doctor. Gregory dis- He has Kanc. covered that radio Leo once Mrs
commentator
Maclean Was friendly with Bowerman.
Jim Laker and Tony Lock have helped to put him on the track of the And now. murderer. accompanied by Inspec. tor Leeds, he has made an important discovery In the umpire's" room in the pavilion. He has found the "proof" with which Bowerman threatened to expose an unknown man shortly before his death.
• THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1956.
THE CASE IS
SOLVED
-NSPECTOR LEEDS balance. Most of the people
what who
staresi ,
thered in the umpire's Quarles had found, however, had their minds
in other things then the Test. "What 11 place 10 Patricia Bowerman was there,
her honey-gold hair shining, he Dice pader than usual. Maclean, whose comentario that day had been rather dis him. The Inspector listeneil, Jointer, sut there and molded
Ruddy-food umpire rubbing his chin. "That's all her eyes
hide it," he said. "But I still don't NEC how Bowerman
killed."
Quaries told
WILM
ཝཱ ཙ ཝཱ ཨནྟཾ ཙ ཏཙ well and ingenious.
You're going to have jub bringing this home to the
Quarles strolled over to the balls and selected one.
his man
en that a ...and Quarles stumps
guilty party."
Ely
The clever
play This
evening I shall bent everything Jack
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puzzleń, překet. Probably he would have iraute ingat.nit this, alat there was no time to do so, for they were due out on the Held.
in ko ar wont. Do you think you evulu... Greggory Kine thoughtful. Pads, atumps and fulle were piled hi call a meeting her seven drick
of the NATTA, of all the people aivoivist,"
Two thush very polmen skref solidly Insídky
ih..
The chur Inspector Lewis ex- planxat 1 y
them Francis Quatles Aquacies spend the rest of the hu smpeting lo say phil
Chayse Bowman's death, the Test Mite 15. wy wpleting moking
one excursions an "Yesterday I said to the ne to molle wattle Thing Jake
speeter that this come wouldn't Jolles was making to him. At dekick in the afivankaat be ke a message set up by lumel Sota Molly Plusty "Bucky A mud 18 ideatified Mon r flote*), August 11, under names Mr and Mrs Castes, { believed prANE JE
unde. D not alertalled,"
Anything fresh?
badkar,
A1 3.30 he was joined by Gorg
The
ductor laughed. Thought 3 might dead you her is there anything fresh on the
4
solved " Quarless
The
was first is made. speedon has called a conferenICAS fog seson melock bright. Would
Die ter comen
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4 cestously woud “ Kane sadd
mly.
At le
of play it evening Austenitawas fuel made
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be seven, and what Loked like the quakert Test played
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Get th we found out Ahv Bavenou Thought suf key humph that Pelky brad taken hi white pail, and what the secret was that Bowerman had hidden away somewhere hery.
a he went out with the SIN drow my his pocket. He used them to count the balls of each over, Ami they killed him. One of the haxi a neat had simple little which, with the slight
JESSATE Exerted by his band, neted bike
2 hypodermic in this way Quiz pressed one of the dive sughly. Arsch two small steel tongues shot out from it.
"Do WAL
24.0 Mone slice
Bowerman's gadget came from Bowerman's pocket?”
septe
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The golden of the white gobait solved be me worth, The meaning wlan Tony Les and Jim Leker came to see me, They d
that Bowerman tlF}
gadget called
the bail P count the morning. In the aftevan he thre What Laker ཛཱtueཀཎཅུ་ མ thought were rather something like
Ann quicle, pis duced from a pocket the sa
and black red, white riley blasted for him by Tuk Jelly
"Ne, Boweran kept nothing
a has at pockets.
There.. only one possible ryuson why se 1te white
Int
mugh
bavy thought
twoon Eagland and Australia for
time was still in
门
coat The
urgan computer
sap was but his
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Marten asikai,
"No. When Bowerman's
examined the spital the computer was in his pocket
These aggies.
skully me." me for falry
Many." sneeringly,
There were two sinal. patio – tures in the palm of Bower- right hand. Bul the Bordeaky has no doubt disposed of the dice. You are quite right,
cimet absolutely
prove my point.
That diary entry
"We neʊvo su then, to a nota found in Bowermen's diary for August 11.
"Morri It said: Hotel, Lowas Photograph. Now, Sussax play no Dounty mxdenes m Lewes. What did the ло Ita? Bowerman was umpering at Edgbaston that day, but play had been washed out. Bowenian was very jealous of is wife, Could
it be that
that bo had come down to London un- expectedly and found out that his wife had gone to
Lew perhaps even followxd her thero? I sent down an agent to make inquiries, giving him four photographs. One of them, of Me Maclean here, was not
Identified. The seond Bowerman himself, was believed to live been seen in the hotel gas. The other two peoply huet styl at the Morrin Hotel that might, a man atul wife. One The Thawerman), alber
A
.1
shack, like the squeak staril.
cture Dom Patrick Bowerman's Tips. "Oh, Greg. grou Fld me it was safe."
"Shut up." Docter Kane sald. hander, Quartes. You'll pay for it."
hun.
"The fact
Fell into place
Ihast discovered the moth d of murder, a good meny things fell to place." Quartes sand, fung that when we got here. yesterday Kane misisted u staying inside The pavilion, although we would have got a better view outside, Th. I was
Job Elat he would be at had for
extunning Bower man when collapsed, and go ang on to the hospital with him. The Bowerman' vemark bu the man he walked
to In the writing on that he meant to ruka bum-nude very good sense Mr. Kanc weave the ma Ikowerman was his patient, ami
R conduc harshest possible
receive punkstinica talked
Paris Newsletter from SAM WHITE
A SHIP-OWNER IS BITTER ABOUT CYPRUS
TN
Paris
The todge keeper of the chateau refused to allow Jesper the course of an
inside. Lady Diana, a resource- interview on the Suez fat woman, thereupon pointed crisis and the future out to the lodge keeper that role of big tankers the Jamper was 'not an ordinary dog. "It is a diplomatic dog," she Greek
Mr ship ❝wner,
"and enjoys diplomatic Stavros Niarchos, had some privileges." bitter words to say about The Joke stuck and a special
coilar
was presented to Jasper British policy in Cyprus. with the inscription: Jasper, chien diplomatique.". (Jasper, The interview, given on diplomatic dog). Mr Niarchos's yacht, the
Last week chambermaid Creole, anchored in Venice, from the Brabussy took Jasper
was published in the Paris for his nightly walk. The walk led past the nearby Presidential newspaper, Le Monde,
Palace and immediately in front Mr of the Palace, to the horror of is quoted as saying: the policemen on duty, Jasper
misbehaved. the agonising problem
This type of misdemeanour in my Greck
on this the vicinity of the compatriots
President's
Speaking of Cyprus, Niarchos
"I cannot get out of my mind
"If agreement with
the entire
of
of 5,000
to
Queries saki Judicially, "Retu-Island, Greece has never ceased palace is a codified legal offence mely
something to to offer to Britain in the event in France. The law was passed we liave back it up. The secret Bower-of Cyprus becoming Greece, the in 1888 and has been kept up bases to date with the changing value man talked about, the one you complete use of military ike to ond en his body, and not only on the islend but also of the frone, so that it is now
on the Greek mainland.
by a fine last night
punishable then bruke in here
franes (28)
on the payable Britain Ak 1. Umpire Fetty held the
had been reached before the spot clase to 11
A policeman duly began West "He told us he annived yester-Suez crisis.
and day morning and found Bower would have benefited from it, take down the particulars
its demand the immediate payment man tesileg a ball in the gauge. Britain would have secured
of the fine. Cyprus instead He said it wrs no good, and put bac
The chambermaid it carefully wide. Now, that was having to wage this endlers
to be dog s a queer thing
against the terrorists. Further resourceful as Lady Diana, She es more,
Greece would have at- told the policeman to get Queries arly in the morning."
and tended strolled over to the balls. und
the London conference his torch and read the inscrip- of boycotting ton on the dog's collar. selco'ed one, "You can see where or Suez instend
The incident ended in prafuso Bowerman cut the scam. It was
being tendered to Mr Niarchos concluded: "I apologies It really too late for Britain to Jasper. understand where Ha truo intereals Me?”
Ingenious hiding place. Bowerman's hobby wea photo- gruphy, you know. He followed you two
Lewes and managed to get a prsty picture, of which he made a note his
ny."
down to
Unforgivable
of
He peoled back the cover the ball and extracted the glossy snap. It showed Kame with his bơm round Patricia Bowerman, They
In
of wor
EXHAUSTING
To what extent does Mr DAYS Niarchos's brother-in-law, rival and fel
fellow-Greek, Mr Aristolic
Onassis, Cyprus?
share AL Onassis is cruising
VENERAL
ANDRE
EX
out
BEAU-
the
UFFRE, who commanda
*x*
on his views the moment Mr French troops newly arrived in
in Greek Cyrus, has given me on
but not unrewarding waters and it was impossible to hausting
few days. The reward Îles the fresh insight has given me into the archate conservatism French military and Foreign Office castes.
reach him.
I do know, however, that
of the were standing in a door-private conversation with British friends Mr Onassis has <x- way, koking out on to a garden.
completely con- On the back was a note in ink: Pred views
The happy couple,
trary to those of his brother-in- Morrin's
It started as an inquiry into low,
He has said on different the history of this little known Hotel, Lewos, August 11."
had been on "Bowerman was a nasty ploce occasions that he fully supports peneral He
British policy in Cyprus, uf work,' Kane must have
Quarles said to In-
General Giraud's staff, but after the North African landing ho Bowerman
"And DIPLOMATIC spector Leeds afterwards. before, and
switched to General de Gaulle. ho KITA? here yesterday
could have forgiven Kane Boy desperte man. It Was
He has also served on the staff His attempt eno enough A slip in here
all people
of the late Marshal de Lattre do change over
wiincre,
Tassigny. He was noted for the But here WOR conquer and dice thig the lunch interval, but thing I simply couldn't forgive
lucidity of his briefings, and he had marked literary tastes, Каж
bun. was the only person in the
So far so good, who could possibly have chauus them back. He did
QA
om the way to The
کده
hospital.
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masy
and
Doctor Gregory Kane was very pede, but he was still fighting". "Proof," he said hoursly. "No proot.
"There is the hotel identifCU- tion, but that might be quarted,”
10 DOC
use me-me, of kind of alibi
Its critics
Whatever One PARIS
may say, still remains in u rather special sense the diple matic capital of the
world. Consider, for example, the case of Jasper, a duchshund belong-
Miss Stella Jobb. ing to
the daughter of the Betish Am- bassador in Paris,
"What was that?" "Interfering with the Test Match, Killing an umpire, my dear inspector, is not cricket,"
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• All characters in The Qual
my
Then in all innocence I asked French War Office intór- mant if the general was married, He stiffened instantly and "That's a part of the private life I cannot
discuss."
Recently Lady Diana Couper replied: and Miss Jebb, accompanied by general's Test Murder story — apart from | Jasper, visited a chateau which the player--are entirely fell- has been converted Into HOILS.
museum.
THE LAND OF PROMISE
THAT
PRINCESS MARGARET WILL SEE
P
RINCESS
MAR-
GARET'S first
(
I sought out close friends of the general. Yes, they knew the general's wic. A charming
woman. Who was she? Silence. I searched through ail the reference books. No mention of la wife anywhere.
Then suddenly the mystery and the baffling silence
litted
on
the subject was explained. The general'a first marriage (on English wife incidentally) had been dissolved. His present és a former
My innate anger when dealing thoroughly
are agricultural, commercial and wife, it appears, Industrial. Here there is em- mannequin,
ployment for hand and brain, with octals Tow and when she returns to Kenya,
in the new factoring and busi-roused, I went back to the War mountain resses, in building, engineering, Office and, pointing out that I
it will bo
the to plateau, to Nairobi, to the farm-
landa and busy commercial
By GRANVILLE ROBERTS glimpse of Kenya will back far beyond their migration be the busy and thriving, 10 the Kenya coast, down but romantic, Island port of through the wars with the Mombasa, The grounds of Portuguese who followed Vasco da Gama and fought hard for Government House, the
the possession of the East Governor's residence African littoral-to the present
visita during his
to the day, in which many of them are Const Province, overlook embracing new opportunities.
When
lands she
ot the narrow, deep entrance Mombasa airport at Port Relz. to the modern harbour of the Princess will be OT the Kilindini and also the fringe of new development areas. Mombasa is a tiny island, shallower gateway to the
ulrendy over-crowded and over- old harbour, into which sail spilling on to the mainland both
on their north and mouth, The the great dhows voyages to and from Arabia satellite township of Changamwe y being founded not far from and the Persian Gulf,
the airport.
Mombasa reaches far back into history; for Chinese and Phoeni clan ailors visited
this palm- fringed const before Arab ond Portuguese invaders struggled for supremacy, They left behind them fragments of pottery, the of their settlements, ruins a legendary tradition. After them came
the Arbs; and over 30,000 of them provide the Living evidence of their former dominion along these shores,
and
THRIVING PORT
the
new
New development areas such ns Changamwe are a reminder that, history and tradition aside; Mombasa da a thriving modern port and a potential industrial Eentre, too, where the chimneys of a largo cement works already tower above the palms on the silver beaches of Bamburi to the north, and
THEW enterprises abourid.
After her visit to Mombasa, whore, are still conscious of the Princess will go do Mauri- their prout history, reaching thus, Zanzibar and Tanganyika,
Arabe in Mombasa, and, clao-
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
the general's two I asked for further concerning his present
T
manufacturing and marketing.
knew about The Princess will see a good centres of the Colony. At over deal of Nairobi
and meet the marriages,
detalls 30,00 foot, Nairabl boasts of a women, of all races, who are wife. cilmate among the most agree making their contribution to the able in the world, for it is never exciting business of buliding not suffoned. "All I can tell you is The War Office man again terribly hot and never too cold. only a elty
of but a symbo!
that the general's wife fits in Notrobl
the scri
the of strength and of progress. Government of Kenya
perfectly in the class of society and the
a senior Army officer is expect» commercial capital of the entire
NEW COLLEGE
ed to move iz East African region. In lem than The new Royal Technical ralf
century. fine modern College she will open will play INCIDENTAL butidings have been built on
a notable part in the future of | INTELLIGENCE what was once a swamp and the East Africa, laying the founda- haunt of wild game. Even today, tion of new opportunities in THE case of Ñína's five båts- within half an hour by car from region that needs more. and has produced a novel talk the city centro, you can be
ever more, stills and abilities of ing point here. As the prices looking at a magnificent pride every sort,
of the individual hats were of lion in the Nairobi National In the smaller settlements|translated into france by the Park and at most of the other such as the Kimangop region of French Press, come as'n'con- game of the African plains. A the Aberdare range, the Princesssiderable shock to French-
commentary on the phenomenal
to see how nil women ta discover that ono can growth of Nairobi is that starts will be able ing from nothing,
the rateable communities are making use of buy a hat in London for loss value of the city is already over the land and its products, while then the price of a sandwichin
In the country of the Wakamba Paris, £60,000,000.
people, she will see how
Yet Nairobi is more than the Arlenis lands are gradually QUOTE OF commercint axle of East Africa being brought under more In THE WEEK
or the political and social capital tensive cultivation and how ine".
Any blow struck in defence
of Kenya; it is a symbol of the dividual holdings, based on JMPRESARIO. Gilbert Millers new concepts that are fashioning scientide plan, are ousting waste- contemporary Africa. Ita inful farming practices, habitants ato African, Asian,
Arab and European; its interests (Continued on Page 19, Col. 3)
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TOE. LEFT FROZEN" AFTER THE VISIT FROM THE NEW NEIGHBORS NEXT DOORTM*
By Lee Folk and Phil Davis
---TO THE MYSTERIOUS
HOUSE NEXT POOR?.
of a woman's reputation leaves ́a dent in it.
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