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would perhaps be able to give some in- formation. The manager replied, Yo, I de indent,* and turned up an entry in his book, which read, Ernest Dyer, in- Trodied by Mr. Eric Gordon Tembe My husband said, Who is this Dyer 1'
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that he was manager replied The discovery of a body, since identi- quite a notorious, person, and seemed to fied as that of a young man named have turned out rather badly. He added George Erie Gordon Tombe, amidst the that Der had bought a house with part ruins of a burnt-out farm-house near of his money at Kenler houw called Kenley common, Surrey was brought The Welcome, and had set up training. about by a dream. The story, though gruentable. After he had lived in that hous kome, is a fascinating one, inamuch as for about twelve months (ic was bought outside the realms of fiction it is believed for something like £3,000 and insured for to be the first instance" on record of a
it caught fire and was burned £12,000) crime being revealed through so myster out but the insurance company, not being antisfied, refused to pay the money. ious an agency,
Since that time Dyar had lived in rooms over the stables. My son, we also leararı. had been a frequent visitor there, Appar rently he was a sleeping partner?
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It is more than a year ago since young Tombe disappeared, and although all efforts to trace him had failed, his parents, who now reside at Sydenham, Pare vor given up hope of being able one day to clear up the mystery. So strong has been this belief that latterly It has inferneed his mother's dreams and be declares that in her unconscious holars she heard the vajce of her son, bimself unseen, calling to her. The werda she heard were these: Let me out; let me out. She felt that he was shut up somewhere, and could not get free. Her insistence that these dream whisperere in some way connected with her son's disappearance so impress ed the police authorities that they were induced to take the matter up afresh,
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I got into communication friends Deer te guston, M Tombe went on. They advised my hus hand to call upon the manager of Lloyds Bank in Bond street, where
aid they believed was a rousiderable sum of money in my son's name. My husband did so, and the manager told him that there was a sum of £1.330 standing to my son's credit and that he had been in twice to negotiate the transfer of this amount to Elords branch in Paris, saying that Dyer was to be joint owner of the account.. The bank manager sormed to have been suspicious because he warned the people at the Paris haul not to negotiate this mones unless my son was present in per
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be pieced together until finally the dedo not know the day-by Dyer in Paris composed body of Tombe was found in He impersonated my son. No trace has disused cesspool on The Welcomes racing been found of my son having heon in establishment, Kenley, on September 18th, Paris during that year,” after an exhaustive search by a number
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of detectives. It was known that at one of the further steer he had taken to divar 1923 time young Tembe was associated with n
up the mystery, When he became sus man named Ernest Dyer. He died by his picious of foul play he visited all the own hand on November 16th last in establishments in London which he knew struggle with the police, who came to his you had been in the habit of patron arrest him on a charge of fraud ntnising, and inquired when he had last Scarborough hotel. It was generally be called. Among a number of places the lieved that the two had some sort of work clergyman visited was a tailor's shop in ing agreement to run The Welcombes as Albemarle-street, and his suspicious were a racing stud, and before it was destroy strengthened when he heard that thes ed by fire in April, 1921, Tombe made or four suits which his son had left there frequent visits to the establishment from before his disappwrance renained un Dorking, where he was staying with his intended to have taken with him on his
claimed. These were clothes which he had wife at a local hotel. Shortly after Tombe's mysterious disappearance in trip to Paris. The distressed father also March, 1922 Dyer left the Renly dis called at the offices of many of the. Lon- trict, and it was not until the chance and after reading of the event at Scar don Newspapers, and consulted the files, mention by a barber the dead man's father a few weeks ago that Tyer had borough which caused Dyer's death, he
communicated with the police there. known his son that attention was again directed to The Welcomes. At one time the establishment was a prosperous, train ing stable, with accommodation for twenty or thirty horses. To-day it is a mass of derelict masonry, overgrown with weeds and rank graeses.".
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It turns out," he said. that my son's suitcase, passport, and other things were found in Dyer's possession after his death. The passport was in his pocket, and the suitcase and other things were fu his room. At the ruggetion of the Sear- borough police, au oficer from Scotland Yard was instructed to call upon me. I put the whole case before him. We dis The investigations were entrusted to ousad it thoroughly, and subsequently I Chief Superintendent Carlin, of Scotland wrote to the officer, saying that I thought Yard, with whom were Divisional Detec Dyer had made away" with my tive-luspector Hedges and Detective Ser- The Welcomes and buried him. I had. geant Wale. It was ascertained that heart that there was a noird there, and when the house was in occupation the insisted on that pond being dragged and surface water and stables drained into a thorough search made, five coespools, and it was on there that the police concentrated their search. The two receptacles nearest the house were
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From inquiries made by a representa Live of The Daily Telegraph it was gathered that Tombe had. been trained aga motor: engineer, and he and Dyer entered into partnership in several motor- engineering businesses in the West-end of London-Dyer, a race-horse trainer, purchased The Welcomes as racing stables from a Mr. Knight; whose ownership enccceded that of Mr. Percy. Woodland. Tombe, it is understood, invested money in the stud enterprise, but did not take any active part in its managemant, con- fining his energies to the motor engineer- ing business. Dyer trained the horse, on Kenley-common and adjoining land, and the business seems to have gone on without incident until April 1021, when what was regarded, at the time nga very suspicious fire" took place. Owing to the circumstances in which the house was destroyed the insurance company declined to settle with Dyer, but appar ently no more was made towards the bringing of a definite charge of incen- diarism against him. Many stories are told at Kenley about Dyer and his racing frienda. Ere was the son of a Brighton
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