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THE BLACKHEATH MURDER
MYSTERY,
It will be remembered that Router cabled to us a brief ae count of a horrible crime on Black. heath, recalling in its nature the
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1931.
I am officially informed that the police are still hoping to get into!' touch with the mail whose descrip-" tiosi was given in the...New. Chronicle this morning, and, which was broadcast by Scotland Yard.
This individual, who has come to bo known as the Mari with the Twisted Lip, was heard quarrelling. with a crying girl on the heath on Thursday night, not far from whero Miss Stecle was found,
A Twisted Lip,
named
I understand that man J. Station, who lives at Sheerness,
Maison Marnac Jack the Ripper murders of a past and is employed in this district,
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According to the Fas Associa tion the post mortem on the young victim, Miss Louisa Steelo, the injuries were inflicted after death
and no violation took place.
SEARCH.
has told the police that on Satur- day he saw a man with a twisted
p
The stranger, who wore a dirty soft hat and a light mackintosh was in a coach that was going into Kent. According to Mr. Stanton,
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Washington, Jan. 18.-Al Capone, king of gangstere, predicts that prodibition will disappear within Ave years.
Prohibition has done nothing but make trouble for all of us, he told Mrs. Eleanor Patterson editor of the Washington Herald.
ia the worst thing that has ever hit this country. If I say I give it no more than another five years, then I'm right, you bat I
Capone feels very deeply that ho
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Sentenco, of ten years' penal sar- vitude was passed at the Old Bailey on Arthur Michael Fisher, aged 20, of Walnut Treo-aveang Wilmington, Dartford, Kent, who pleaded guilty to blackmailing a clergyman. The clergyman's name was not monticued, and he was re-
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Dodson, prosecuting, said that in. is the victim of long and unjustiferred to as "Mr. X.” Mr. Gerald fied porevention.
February, 1930, Fisher, ·who was "It is like this," he remarked, rather plaintively. "I don't inter-working on a ladder at an adjoin- TWISTED LIP MAN: POLICE | thị man entered the coach at Wool-tere with big business. Nono ofing house, aw Mr. X in a comSUNDAY SERVICE, February 23, 1931, at | wich and left it before reaching those big business guys on stay Fromising situation through the
with statements, but up to now
Many people have come forward that I over took a single dollar window. Ho.iminediately seized
the man referred to in the broad-
traced. search for a man with a twisted in supposed to have boon seen on the hoath to-day provod fruitless.
The high wind which has been blowing over the heath to-day has been responsible in part for
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Blackheath murder case, writes the News Chronicle spesial correspond. ent,
The discovory alters in many
respects the reconstruction already made, by the police of the murder of Louisa Stoole.
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Edgar Wallace's View, People in Blackheath have baken the greatest interest in Mr. Edgar Wallace's suggestion that the mur deror may have been the man who Walking along the road which murdered a girl named Trew not
far from here 12 years ago, runs almost across the middle oferime for which a soldier was con- the hoath from the village of victed, although he had always
maintained his innocence. Charlton, a passerby noticed ä large patch of blood on the nuddy grass, only four yards from the rond itself.
The wind bed dried the rain- Braked ground, and the colour of the blood on the brown mud had becoine apparent.
it is on the same piece of heath land, The body was found on a football pitch near the goaljinsts it the South-row end, and the patch of blood is just beyond where the opposing goalposts would stand, adjoining the road landing towards
Charlton.
I understand that picoes of cloth and an overcost button were also
found near hero..
In the now reconstruction of the crime it is presumed that Miss Steplo....who was sent to return a book and to call at a chemist's
People who remember the crime agree that in many details it coin- cidea with the Blackheath murder:
CALL FOR A NEW PHOTOGRAPH.
"RECONSTRUCT ONE.".
Four days have clapsed since the nude body of Miss Stoe's was found mutilated on Blackheath Common, and despite all its efforts Scotland Yard is no nearer to the identity of the murderer than on Friday morning,
can't they leave my rolcot alone?
Tax Chargo,
this
"But there they are always after me, trying to frame me. They got me framed in Chicago Now, if I don't answer
framed income tax charge, they are going to try and trump up a charge of vagrancy against me. It ain't fair.
plane swooped down
During the conversation an air low over Cupone's palatial estate.
Aron't you afraid that one of those things will drop a Lomb here ene of these days?" naked Mrs. Patterson.
"Well, one way or the other," re-. plied Capone, shrugging his should-
ers.
Every clue which has come to hand has been worked out, bun--
ed
Mr. Patterson describes Capone
If one of those prodigious Italiane with the neck and should. era of a wrestler, lack chested, almost six feet tall, with gigantic soft from easy living. Neverthe hands, which, superficially, seem e6s, they are beautifully manicur drade of possible ends" have been Patterson adds, Capone served During the interview, Mrs explored, but all to no avail. (37-
lemonade, while eight bodyguards Scotland Yard though the au- thorities will never admit it-isang alently in the background, baffled, the position, for the motiously following their principal
Rmoking, reading, and unostenta ment, ja s deadlock,
through the house while Capone ex- hibited its luxurious furnishings and splendour.
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about ten minutes to eight on Thursday night, decided to tako n short walk across the heath, as she zometimes did when sent out in the evening.
The polico baliove that she pro bably walked straight on from the chemist's shop along the road leading in the direction of Charl ton. Buses pass along this road, but are separated by intervals of several minutes, and on Thursday night few other vehicles were about.
The police now believe that the murderer was already here at the place indicated by the newly-found
patch of blood.
He had carefully chosen his position in between lamps. Marks
the girl's nock show that she. was probably seized unwares and from behind.
Dragged off Road, Something may have been tied around her throat afterwards,. She as probably dragged just off the road and on to the grass, whore the savage wounds were inflicted.
The murderer, who may have teen disturbed by the approach of 1 vehicle, probably then either dragged or carried, Mies. Stero further on to the heath and left her body nearer South-row, where she was found.
Was the murderer the same man who, attempted" to seizo two other women by the throat in the vicinity. et Blackheath not long before on the same night 1
One of these women has attended the Blackheath-road police station, where a number of men were lined
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It was thought that she might be able to pick out her assailant from among them, but eho was unable to do so,
Blood Testa.
To-day pathologists have taken a sample of blood from Miss Steele's
see if it is similar to the blood. found on the turf to-day, and to the blood found on an undergar." Iment on the railway line at Cal- ford, as reported in to day's News-Chronicle
Picturo-Glue,
left the force after long and meri torious service confirmed the opin ion expressed in the News-Chroni cir yesterday that the last five
key to the mystery.
Surely, argued one
It was a picture-reconstructed of them, unofficially and broadcast through somebody must have seen Miss Steelo after she left her employer's out the country by a picture pa house and before she died. Perhaps per which led to important evid ence in the Bournemouth murder in a restaurant, at a cinema, or
case when Miss Irene May Wilk standing talking at a street corner. It is hardly likely she would haveings, of Streathamn, was killed by a Boscombe chauffeur at South- been for five hours on the Common bourne in December, 1921. unless she was in company of a man in whom she had implicit trust.
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upon it to turn it to commercial purpose. He approached Mr. X and said, "What are you going to do to hush it up Mr. X repli ed, This is blackmail." Fisher ther said, "It is a mild form of blackmail, 76, is true. Black. mail usually continues, but in this caso £5 would settle it."
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Mr. Dodson said that the pay- ments began with a sum of £2.SUNDAY SERVICES on Feb. 22, 1931:- It was not a mild form of black- mail, but a pornicious kind which The paymente went progressed. on until Mr. X, a single man with an income of about £250 a year, had been bled to the extent of £100.
Threats in Writing.
Finally matters came to a head when Fisher was bold enough ta make his demands and threats in writing. In one of his letters he threatened, if money was not paid, the bishop, and then they would to "sco father and failing him
know what sort of a hypocrite you have been."
Mr. X then had the courage to go to the police and Fisher was
arrested.
Divisional detective - inspector Askew said there were several minor convictions against Fisher for assault and other offences.
Mr. X had made nino personal payments. by April and 14 pay- ments afterwards as
the result
of letters and personal interviews,
Fisher, in a statement, naked for leniency, and said he had acted moro like a fool than a criminal. The Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild,
capped by the lack of information.
The present inquiry is handi-.), passing sentence, said that Fisher had pleaded guilty, to what
Case is
be opened if the Yard issued
A new phase of the inquiry might It is usual in murder cases for he regarded as a felony only next
the police to be showed under with to murder in its gravity. constracted pictures of Misg Blects possible clues--but this
"It is moral murder," Sir Ernest as she would have appeared when Proving the exception. she left her employer's house.
This must not be taken ng a re-continuod, "murder of the soul, You found at the beginning of A written description of the girlflection on the energy, initiative or
last year a clergyman in his own cannot convey to every mind the efficiency of the Murder Souad working on the inquiry. They same picture. If Ming Etcole's re-
have spared no paine, neither have constructed picture were issued to the Press it is more than likely the spared themselves in their that several people might come
Yesterday some of them were looking heavy-eyed for want forward and my they saw her-
of sleep. But they will not give perhaps in someone's rompany,
in. The death of Miss Steele must Among the statements might be the
not be allowed to join the already yital oluo. It is worth trying,
too long list of unsolved murder (Continned on nezt Golumn.)
mysteries.
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room not doing an illegal act but one which, had it been known to bis parishionera and friends, would have militated against bis value it their eyes as a Christian ten cher, and one which to him would stem even more serious than it might to the ordinary man of the world.
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