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28 1908
BIODATAKISING STOMACH COMPLAINT for some considerable time. Among her symptoms were loss of appetite, sareness of the throat and mouth, constipation, dizziness, and
THE SUMMER-HOUSE MURLEA!, anked if I could help him. "Some great be verandah-it saved her taking a journey, not i ng ago. “This old tady--now seventy
trouble has happened to you, sir?". I anid; but right round the summer hobia. The obvious | years of age, had been suffering from a HOW-M-6-LUARD MET HER DEATH. he seemed as if he could coly speak in razpolnference is that bar assailant; if there way and groans and broken quatches. Beyond that only dde, was hiding at the back of the 'haust, Sevenoake, August 15, The untiring vigilance at a host of police what the matter wan.”**
he wanted my husband. I could not make out and as she stepped on to the verandah, glided rapidly round the side of the house and fell officere and the independent inquirist of others
upon her with the bludgeon from behind, |«from this morning's dawn till late at night have. completely failed to pierce the grim mystery of the murder of Gn. Luard's wife. Indeed, the more the affair is investigated, and the more "minutely every derail of the few facts that are Ynown is Pxamined, the less likelihood there seems of discovering the tragic secret held by that lonely, gloomy Kentish wood.
BAFFLING-MYSTERY.
he murder is abundant in all the most
"THEY HAVE MURDERED HER.”, So Mr. Wickham hastened to the house and THEORIES AS TO THE CRIMINAL brought her husband. He gathered from the Who did it? A theory large'y in favour general's incoherent statements, that some this morning was that the crime was cam thing terrible had happened to Mrs, Luard, but mitted by one of the horde of hoppen who what it was he could not make out; so" ha'bave, just invaded Kent for the annual persuaded the old man to accompany him to picking. Many of these are men who tramp the house, where other help could be obtained from London, and would pass along the main The story is now taken up by Mr. Harding, road to Maidstone quite close to the wood "The butler-at-Frankfield, who told me home where the lonely summer-house stands. But "I was called to the harness room by Mr the tramp or hopper theory, I know, does not Kettle, the arm bailiff, aut found the general find much favour with those responsible for sitting on a box in airbe condition of grief, the conduct of investigations. The reads are He seemed compisse.y brokes, and almost on thronged with tramping hoppan, and there Are the point of collapse so much so that we could several gipsy camps near by, but to imagine is beyond belief. The points in common in the case with the C.mberley murder, where the assailant evidently stole the weapon with which he committed the crime, cannot, how ever, be neglected by the caretul investigator. ...I am warned to-night that too much import ance must not be attached to the idea that the unfortunate lady was blu lggoned before being shot. The marks may be equally consistant with one of the bullets striking the interior of the skull
BUILDINGS. summer hours, in the heart of the wood, at ust get any intelligible idea of what had hap- say of these poor creatures going about armed
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baffling elements of "mystery and horror. The age of the victim-a lady of about 62; the universit è teem in which she was held; the remote and gloomy situation of the deserted
least half a mile from the nearest occupied house; the length of time that elapsed before the murder was discovered the poor lady. must have lain dead on the verandah nearly two hours; the fact of the first discoverer of He agreed eagerly; and i led him back to the crime being Gen. Luard's little dog; the the casa. Ho was groaning and crying all the absence of any footprints in the deep, vorecepwhile, and could only walk by hits and starts, itive carpet of pine needles and decayed leaves halting for a minute and then going on again,
which form the floor of the wond; and the Between his groans 1 heard him say:
abience, also, alany credible motive for the crime-all these combine not only to thwart the work of the detectives, but to increase he pity and the terror of the whole tragedy.
- THE HUNGALOW.
The blates! They have killed her: And that was the first hint that I got that murder had beep committed."
RINGS AND BROOCH STOLEN, They were joined by Mr. Kettle; and came at last in the terrible scene on the baleriny, Mr. Harding gave me a minute description of the condition of the hody as he saw it. She
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In any case, the result of the day's inquiries hes been to throw down the earlier theories, adopted by the police, and to leave the case a greater mystery than ever, I am assured by the police to-night that the stories of a mau
about the time of the murder, and that they are
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Ol these factors, the most impressive is the profound gloom and silence of the situation of he suminer-house. It stands in the grounds of Frackfield, the residence of Mrs. Wilkinton --a commodious bungalow, with several rooms, Inosily furnished (though not unoccupied), had run from the two shot wounds on her face in patsusssion of a description of the stranger. | and other ailments have beeä completely and date they cannot be recognised.
day, he said, on her face, is a pool of blood that having been leaving Mijor-Gen. Luard's estate fact I know, personally, of cases where
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roofed with tiles, walled with wood, and skirted in one side by the balcony where the body was
I learn, however, that the police have been found. This bitcany is a somewhat slender body would naturally collapse except for this busy inquiring throughout the neighbourhood ffair roughly composed of round wood uprights significant feature-her left arm had beea pull for persons suspected of insanity tendencies, by their strengthening, health-giving "action |
ed from under the body, the glove, stripped from the hand; and three rings that she was wearing torn off her fineer. The rings were:
One gold wedding ring';
with a wooden rail along the top.
The house being built on the crest of a wood. ed hill, leaking down into a deep, dark valley of fir trees, the floor at the balcony (which faces the valley), stands some two feet above the ground that slopes down and away from it.. There is a rough clearing in front, but the path by which it would have to be approached by
Mrs. Luard leads over the balcony floor and splits into two no the other side, and fork being the commencement of a short cut to Ightham Kooil,
The trees, and the shaggy undergrowth of
"Ons gold diamond ring, old setting;
One gold ring with the word "Ishi," mean-
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subsequently tennspired that a gold brooch she had been wearing had also been removed) The Onzer was cut in bree places by the flo lent removal of the 'tings.
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*The apipien formed," said Mr Harding
the wood, close round it an every side. There "was that she had been shot from behind, and
is nothing to be seen from it but, trees and ferny thickets fulling away into the depths of the valley, and no sound to be heard but the wind in the tall firs and the necasional curry of a rabbit or twitter of a bird. It presents the very picture of ab indoned solitude; a place marked out by Nature for grim deeds,
THE FATAL WALK,
-The-route-followed by the general and his wife on the Monday afternoon covered about two miles-they were fond of taking these afternoon, walks together about the beautiful jocality of their rural home, for although well on in years- the general being near 70 and his wife about fag-they were an active pair, and as regarda Mes. Luard I'am assured that the lonked nearer so than 65.
then shot again as she lay on the ground."
The general's one iden now seemed to be in eat the body of his murdered wife home; but informed first. This be at last agreed to, and Mr. Harding persuaded him to have the police
was finally induced to accompany the bu ler back to Frankfield, while the police were seat for.
REMOVING THE BODY.
and learning what their movements were on the afternoon in question..
The inquest will be haid to-morrow (Wed. nesday} afternoon at 3.15 at Ightham Kooli.
THE LUARD FAMILY.
General's distinguished-career in the Army, Mrs. Luard, the victim of the terrible trage. dy, was a Miss Hartley, daughter of Mr. Thomas Hartley, of Gilliool, Cumberland, and was married to Gen. Luard in 1875.
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The general kimse f belongs to an old guenot family; which at one time occupied a prominent-position-in-the-commercial of ar Cils. Many cubsequent mentis life family have been in the armv. Gen. Luard, who is 63 years of age, is the son of the late Major Luard-Selby, of Ightham Mote, and age; and during his jo years' service he had a entered the Royal Engineers when 17 years of varied military experience.
He was one of the officera at Woolwich in October, 1868, when a tremendous explosion look-place at the Eṛah goopawder works. A The last scene in which the general figured thousand barrels of gunpowder, each bolding- in this grim drama was at dusk-soon after nearly a hundredweight, exploded. Thirteen or fourteen men were killed, and a large num- sight, when the police having completed their ber seriously injured. Quite a hundred yards observations, a fruit wagon was taken from of the embankment in front of the works was Frankfield to the place where the body lay, and blown into the Thame, and it was only by the strenuous labours of the g rrisna, led by the the murdered wife reverently placed within for removal to Ighibam Knoll, The bereaved aldegiacere, among them young Luard, that the low-lying district around" Wondwich and Erith gentleman superintended all the sad proceed. was saved from a devastating flood. ings; and when the body had been placed Finside the wagon, walked ahead of the moura-
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The general has told the police and also those helpers to whom he first went on making tol procession all the way to the Knoll. Tha: 1871. In the meantime he had paid a visit to his ferrible discovery, and who have to-day told me the story as they had it from him-way lay entirely through the wood; beneath that they lek ightham Knoll, Taking with them the deepening shidows thrown by the tall fir the general's Irish terrier, about three o'clock, trees, the wagos creaked and jolted with its
The above Club will be held on SATUR of lieut..colonel, ghastly burden over the thick floor of pine They strolled gently by a private pails leading needles and dead leaves, with the grief-stricken there engaged in survey and studying the DAYS 3rd October, at 1.30 File fund
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Woods until they came, in about a 'mile, to a wicket-gate, giving ost the main road between the village of Stone-st, and Sevenoaks Here the general said he would proceed some distance further 10 the pavilion of the golé links get his golf club. His wife accordin. Iy proposed that she should go home by herself, branching off by the wicket-gate path that led ound the crest of the hill-stil trough the woods-past the summer house, aut back to the Knoll by a short cut:
FINDING THE RODY.
farm workers and house servants treading soft valits side. It was a scene of sombra tragedy -never-to-be-forgotten.by those who took part
in il
SEARCHING THE WOODS
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Ges, and Mrs. Luard had two sons, Eric Africa with the Royal West Kent Regiment Dalbiac, the younger, who' served in South
died in Somaliland in 1993 The elder, who has the D:5.0, is Capt. Charles-E'mhiret Luard: He was decorated for conspicuous service with the King's African Rifles at Abassi-Lond ́u Morning Leider,
During the Fenian scare of 1867 Gen. Luard, then a captain, was appointed an executive officer in London. Od retiring from the army he decored himself to county work, and for 14 No more that night did the wood know its ac-years he was a member of the Koul County customel solitude and silence. Police watchers, remained to keep guard over the lorked sum- mer-house and the land soaked spot where murder had been done; and as soon as dawn permitted it the search of the woods com menced. The entire police farce.of the district That was about a quarter past three. Her was pressed' into service, nod for hours the 'husband (taking the dog) went to the golf links. | woods were alive with beaters. It was 6000
duly got his clubs, and went home by road made clear, however, that the murderer had- through Stones, arriving at 'wenty minutes fled far from the scene of his crime. The past four. He was surprised to find his wife wands were empty of all but police and jouro- had not returned, especially as a lady wbom nlists and photographers. be guilty man bad, she had invited to tea had arrived and was for the present at all events, escap: 5 waiting; and after delaying for a little while "We are entirely without a clue,” I was told they went out to mret her, taking the short cut this evening by Cole Warde, the Chief Con- Pihrough the wood towards the summer-house stable of Ken, who has tiken command of the by which they expected she would be returning.investigation, assisted ly De ective-inspector What happened then was told by the gene al Fawle (Maidstone), Dolective-inspector Everet to a reporter to-day as follows:-
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At the top of the Hili i told the Tidy to wait | niks), and Superintendent Ford (Malling),, while I went on to see what I could find.
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To-day's most important even', therefore, has been the post-mortem examination conducted by two local doctors at Ightham. This pro- "The wand was too thick for me to see any duced one fact of statingly new interest thing, but when i got cear to the spot I a w Damely, that besides the two gunshot wounds -my-wife's body.ising buthe genund The Irish-on-the-bead (which were evidently fixed at close tenite was licking his mistress's face."
LANDTHE OKNURAL'S GRIEF.: The gene al was too much overer me with grief to go any further; but we know that Mrs. Luard was lying dead on the floor of the bal- cony, in a pool of blood, with two revolver-shot wounds in her head-ons behind the left ear and the other below the right eye; and the terrible hour which ecsued upon the discovery was vividly depicted to me this afternoon.by several of the helpers whom the general at once went in search of,
household word throughout the. length 'and breadth of Ceylon, regards Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Paie People as par excellence the idea! medicine for the home. And be bas subslab- tial reason for this belief, these Pills baving proved of valer in no less than three members of his own family circle-one of them being himself
"It was because of the`remarkable way in which Dr. Williams' Pink” Pillt. benefited"
quarters), the body showed signs of a heavy blow having been received an t-e top of the skull. Thái, the unfortunate lady stems; to bave been bludgeoned first, and then shot- somewhat difficult combination of attack, ons. would have thought; unless there were two ap- sailants, one striking and the other shooting almost simultaneously. The two bullets took the doctors a long time to extract, and 1. sm authoritatively informed that whed, they were got out it was found they were to smashed by contact with the bone as to be quite useless for Plonging wildly down the steep hill through purposes of comparison and identification. The thefir trees, the agonised officer came after a only inference thay suggested was that the re- mbl.in the cottage of Mr..Wickham, the coach- | volver osed was an old one. mab of Frankfield, Mr. Wickham told me The fact that the body lay do the verandah that grief and horrer had so changed his | has caused a good deal of mystification, as it „festures that she with difficulty recognised him. | suggests at first blush that Mrs. Luard húð *He was white as death, and his face stopped at the summer-house with the intent of -ssemed drawn and twisted with agoay," said catering; but it is not at all strange when it is Mrs. Wickham." He ratbed lato the garden | remembered that this quickest way from the gate and cried for my husband I told him path was leaving to the new one that she my wife's mother that I first acquired an by was up at the house (Frankfeid), sïd would take for the Kooli would be by way of¦ established faith in them," said Mr. da Silva
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