murder unsolved

by Frank Entwisle

Part 4

Across this hall man moved laboriously with a heavy case, unnoticed by the crowds. It was a brand new, plywood cabin trunk, covered with shiny brown canvas, and bound with four cane hoops; the between Brighton and Rotting- towns with ford in their names kind of cheap box thousands take on holiday.

The victim

as

On

Three events

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My theory

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After talking to people with a close knowledge of the cape I om convinced of a theory which its all the facts.

belleve that the victim was

were walking along the const had led to soonches in

dean when they found อ -WES fathomed. It has not woman's hoad in a sea pool, been made public until today He approached the left over the world (1,020 from messages oven followed him to Incredibly, they dild .not that the whole word was Juggage office, ifted it with Germany alone).

his hotel bedroom during the report it.. It was a month later, Stafford the name of a large effort on to the counter, WAS So did police reports from hot months. To get sleep he long after this vitul elve had Brighton, stone which no longer handed receipt G1945. then forces in Britain and France; had to hire deck chair for a been washed away, that they exists.

few hours among the thousands began to talk about it, and that holder of receipt GID45 bought There is Httle doubt that the disappeared. Seventy other reports of mass searches in sea- hunks 'were left there that day, side bungalow districts, of the on the beach, where he would police

strange the trunk and It, was rather cool for the sea- discovery

story indirectly, DC bloodstained be unrecognised, sor-lingering in 'the lower, clothes; of pre-natal examina- Perhaps the most frightening The couple were questioned. shop, and that the brown paper Afties but soon there was tions in hundrode of hospitats result of the case was the reve- They said they had falled to was part of the pacing. to be a heatwave. And as the and surgeries (5,000 from

iation that many hundreds of report because they imagined

women went

head was that of a young summer crowds thronged the lrgie

missing that the Hospital); rurts

suicide, which the police had Regency streels, there w16 to thousands of missing iris. All each year,

disposed of by throwing it into be such excitement, such had to be checked; hundreca

the sea. sinister activity, such a hunt had to be followed up.

Their story was tested by for the unnoticed owner of Geologists (to examine and

experienced interrogators-and period the police was the cheap, brown trunk trace to place of origin sand in

believed. Tidal experts Brighten had seldom seen. cars suspected to have corried issued weekly lists of missing were asked to help trace the

the trünk), blologists, udal girls, and asked the public for head again. Beaches, all over the mistress of a prosperous experts, medicul authorities clues that might lead to them. the South coast were searched, married man afraid to answer were called in,

At last all but seven of the

But the grim ofte that police police appeals, Parents would administrative side of thousands were accounted for.

believe, would have solved the have reported ឆ The

daughter's For trunk G1945 contained the

While this colossal activity. Brighton 'trank Investigation

had disappearance, Krew 60

mystery THE "ugly American" is getting a new face.

that Donaldson was proceeding three dramatic disappeared for ever. And the plastic surgery is taking place in a the headless and limbless body enormou

of a young

woman. Height: appealed to the Yard for more events occurred.

Weight: about staff, and special four-week educational "crash" programme about Sit. 2in.

moved from the A baby's body was found in trunk 21 Brighton unknown to police station. to what was pro-another for U.S. executives who are planning to work 8st. 716. Name:

this day.

bably the most bizarre murder station.

As for the other abroad. Purpose of the course is to help create a

She was the victim of the H.Q. In the story of criminology. Another woman's body was

found in a trunk at a Brighton scientists established that fresh and more favourable image of Americans

that was to intrigue and hor-

Bluse searched

the oil on the brown paper during in the under-developed countries of the world.

rify Britain all that summer,

investigations. A mun was later the kind used by surgeons to and start one of the widest

He took over. a suitè of rooms tried for this

and stanch bleeding. murder

It is also likely that the death An.. experiment for the special

with Д The unusual project groundwork

police hunts in history.

beneath the cupolas of sèquilted, The police decided

happened stems, indirectly at least, course.

Relle! porter Bill Vinnicomb Brighton's Regency Pavilion this case was unconnected with weighted trun's led to the be and dismemberment

the first.

criminal had at Brighton. from the national uproar

The ease once a Royal palace. There he

Recently I talked to ex-Supt. The first session of the study discovered the torso.

But the third event was most used a car to carry his heavy Donaldson. I put my theory. He at last urogramme was held the lay uncialmed for 11 days. On set up 14 departments to deal over the publication

the June 17 he opened it. Then University in

with different aspects of the Fantastic of all. It has

Lung examination showed would not comment, year of the best-selling American

hunt the string department, kept secret since 1934. I dis- that the girl had not been But he did say: "I believe I novel The Ugly American nation's capul lust September, he called the police,

They found the The sixth session is now under

shot, remains brown paper department, cabin covered it during my inquiries strangled,

rassed or know who the man was, I think savage picture of

were wrapped

cil-soaked trunks, missing women....and only recently. It is this..........

drowned. She may have died he is still alive. But there is way.

AL with no on.

time of the from a head blow. about the American

brown paper and bound diplomacy

not enough evidence to bring a Enthusiastic

blind 19 feet of jule venetian

discovery R 17-year-old And the clue of the word cuse to court." work in South-East Asia.

and his girl ....r....d-wilck at first

-London Express Servico). "And one

firm has reserved cord; the kind that sold for a and halfpenny yurd, But more directly, the pro- ave places for the spring of gramme. Sponsored by the 1981 and

for the ave more Business Council for Iriter autumn of 1032," reported

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great. Brighton trunk mystery

Blood obliterated the firit part of one word scrawled bluc pencil on the paper.

Hational Understanding, had Otto Schaler, a deputy director The remaining letters apcit

!ts

beginnings in the demon-, of the project. sications against Vice-President

conference

1...0........ There was also The course is designed-cheap, non-surgical coiton wool vive the executives a pleture of and a large face cloth in the people they will live and trunk.

their economic

Richard Nixon in South America in 1458.

The idua Was originally work with, their developed during a between President Eisenhower problems. and several top U.S. business-" men and the council later met with Nixon after his Latin- American tour and laid the

A British Crossword Puzzle

10

15

17

18

20

1 Out (6).

ACROSS

4 Sudden seizure (5),

7 Above other people? (0).

8 Very welcome addition (5).

10 Said to depend on the liver

12 Golden quality (7).

16 Enough to make you weep

(5).

10 Drawn into a knott (4).

17 When man bites dog! (4).

19 of ancient Carthage. (B),

20 Goes on all fours? (7),

21 Allow another to have (4).

23 Thrown down na

lenge (5).

24 City of N. Italy (0),

20 Where to learn (5).

chial-

20 Completely virtuous (8).

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DOWN

history and and Social

Legs found

Chief inspector

the

ex- (now

The executives learn what The no ive population thinks Superintendent) BOB DONALD- about America and its poli- SON, a policeman of exceptional cies. And perhaps most im- persistence, arrived from Scat- portont of all, they learn howland Yord to take charge. He to handle embarrassing and brought pathologist Sir Bernard loaded questions that might be Spilsbury. He ordered a search fired at them by militant of every station cloakroom in nationalists.

Graduates of this school who have had a chance to test its tecchings are enthusiastle about the idea.

London Express Service).

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1 Struggling to succeed (8).

2 They're liable to be shot

'(8).

3 Closely oberved (4).

5 By sound only (8)

6 Where it comes from (6).“

9 Sign please (8).

11 Bound to serve (8).

12 Ian't it ridiculous? (6).

13 Fire points of male attire?

(8)

14 With. walde foremost (8).

18 Juvenile iller (6),

22 Like Crocus (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Manicure, 6 Relief, 9 Manifold, 11 Compares, 12 8tun, 13 Strap, 18. Oiled, 19 Ovid, 32 Head-rest, 24 Converse, 20 Kawity, 20 Rear-most, Down: 1 Brick, 2 Blump, a Memento, 4 'Ator, 6 Iris, 0 U-boats, 7 Ending, 10 Nepal, 14 Rider, 10 Pendent, 18 Concur, 17 Vienna, 20 Jetty 21 Blays, 22 Heim, 28 Aska.

letters in

The

square

on the left? 1.0 maklar the words, each of the Aquell Tellure Stay boased once only, ch Large wordt contain the letter, and there must be at least one tel-letter word in the flat. No plural 1 no toreign words: 110104, TUDAY'S

Tis of words, good!

words, Dery DOCK: 12

Solution an Monday,

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London Express Service.

Eritain,

Next day the girl's legs were found in luggage at King's Cross with some old newspapers; and Sir Bernard was able to issue a more detailed descriptión.

He said the girl was aged be. tween 21 and 28, that she had taken great care with her ap- pearance, and that she had been a few months pregnant.

These few clues, the contents of the cusés, were all Bob Donaldson had to work with. Nobody at the stations could remember the depositor.

Donaldson appealed for help; for anyone who knew of the purchase of such paper, cords or cases (there were thousands), for anyone who had missed Baws that could have been used in the rough dismemberment; for property owners to search empty premises.

"To have committed a crime of this kind without leaving some trace is beyond belief," said the police. The cause of death has not been discovered, but it was probably not noiseless...."

Letters began to arrive at murder headquarters from all

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