BRIGHTON MURDER MYSTERY STILL
UNSOLVED
EXPERTS
BAFFLED
Brighton Trunk Mystery No. 1 remains a mystery,
there was still no evidence available to enable the jury to deal with these points as the head and arms had not been found.
He only proposed to call Dr. Pull- Ing, who would produce reports of Sir Bernard Spilsbury and Dr. Roche Lynch. The police were represented by Inspector Pelling and Chief Inspector Donaldson, and, subject to anything they might say, the Inquiry would be closed.
Dr. Pulling then read an extract
from the roport of Sir. Bernard Spilsbury, dated July 4. It read:
Who the woman was, and how, when, and where she came by her
"On June 19.1′′ made a post- death have not been discovered. mortem examination at the Brigh- The head and arms have not been ton mortuary on the headless and found. Sir Bernard Spilsbury is limbloss body of a woman found unable to state the cause of death. In a suitcase at Brighton Station,
These points were brought out The body was that of a well- when the inquest was resumed at nourished woman. In the neck the Brighton recently.
lino of division passed through the fifth cervical vertebra.. The arms had been severed a short distance
The Coraner was told by a police officer that no useful purpose would bo served by keeping the Inquiry below the shoulders the right at open, and the Inquest was there a lower level than the left.
The
upon closed with a formal verdict. Jegs had been severed a short die- The trunk and logs of the wo-tance below the hips, the loft leg man wore found in Juno last. Only at a lower lovel than the right, evidence of the finding of the limbaj "A HEALTHY WOMAN" was given when the matter was first "On Juna 20 I made a post-mor- brought to the notice of the tem examination of two human low- Coroner, and it was adjourned unter limbs found in a box at King's March in the hope that police In-Cross L.N.E.R. Station. The quiries would solve the mystery, limbs formed a pair which were
Nothing has, however, served exactly alike. this
Although Chief- purpose, Inspector Donaldson and Detective- Sergeant Sowell of Scotland Yard and the Brighton police have in- vestigated endless supposed clues during the intervening months.
The limbs had been separated from the trunk through the upper. parts of the thigh, and each limb was further divided at the knee.
"The trunk found at Brighton and the lower limba found at King's Cross are both of the same body-that of a young woman about 20-25 years of age. She was well developed but not, stout, and was about five feat three inches in height..
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ANTARCTIC MAY BE SCENE OF SUMMER REVELS
Scenes in the Antaretle where Sir. Douglas anvisions pleasure resorts of the future. Inset, Sir Douglan
Melbourne.
The annual domestic argument about where to spend that vacation threatens to become more involved and complex.
Mother, who wants to go to the seashore, and father, woh wants to vacation in the mountains, in the future may have to put up with debate from junior about the merits of a sojourn in the Antarctic.
Mawson.
fits coming out of the south pole reglen under British control.
three men who scaled Mount Ere- bus and planted, the Unlon Jack there.
ESCAPE FROM DEATH
the HT
The established facts are that on June 6, Derby Day, a cabin
"It is obvious that unified control trunk was left at the luggage office at Brighton Station, and on June
under British Inter-imperial admin. istration is most certan to procura 7 a suitcase was deposited at tho
the ultimate benefaction to the In 1911 he headed his own party cloakroom at King's Cross Station.
the explorer Bays, which sailed from. Hobart, Tas The trunk contained a woman's "She appeared to have been a
territory." body and the suitcase a woman's healthy woman. No disease was
"Contigous British domlalons have mania, in the schooner Aurora and legs.
found in her body. The structures
already claimed a considerable por established a base on of her leg bones suggest that she
tion of the land arcas, and rightly explored coastline of the Antarctle so, for not only has Great Britain continent. The expedition almost led an active life, and that there was probably no history of serious The Antarctic? you ask. Yes, played a leading part in their discurried Sir Douglas to his death. lness in childhood. The thigh, the Antarctic, the place you Ima-covery, but her proximate lands are In December of 1913 he, with two logs, and feet were perfectly clean, gine as an unknown area of barren botter in a position to administer companions, left the main base for and, like the trunk, show no marks wastes, icebergs, walruses, pen- their control and development. or injury.
guine and polar bears.
Chief-Inspector Donaldson and Detective-Inspector Pelling, chief of the Brighton C.I.D., had a con- ference with the Coroner before the Court sat.
The Coroner's Office notice of the Inquest was headed:"Ro death of unkriown female person, 20-25 years of age, found in trunk at Brighton Station, 17/6/84,"
NO MEMBERS OF PUBLIC
No member of the general public was present, and the Coroner sat with but soven of the original jury of nine. One juryman has since been taken ill and another has left the district.
The only recent witness was Dr. H. J. Pulling, who at the time of the discovery was pollca surgeon In Brighton. He has now retired. The Inquiry lasted only eight minutes and then, on the direction of the Coroner, the jury returned anore calling the only witness
verdict. Before the Coroner, addressing the jury, said that on June 19 Sir Bernard
"I found no natural disease to account for death. There were no indications of poisoning, and there were no marks of violence on the fore, unable to state the cause of body or lower limbs. I am, there- death."
"NO TRACE OF POISONING"
was
thero, he says.
ONLY EXPLORED
FISHING AND WHALING
a dash east to ascertain the nature of the land in that direction. Sud- denly one of the group vanished in The Antarctic is the resort of the future. For this prediction you
"The immediate prospects for a bottomless crevasso carrying the may eredit Sir Douglas Mawson, commercial development are feh- with him. Mawson and his sur- most completely equipped dog sleds famous explorer of the south pole eries and whaling, which geo-viving companion turned back with cruises to the pack ice of the Ant- and other far away regions.
graphically Australia and Now Sir Douglas believes that steamer Zealand are best suited to develop. tering their dogs they hoped to only one day's food, but by Blaugh- "As a winter sports ground the make their way back to safety. arctic and winter sports at the Antarctic will be a thrill to Aus- The food gave out and the dogs An extract read from the report lower tip of the world are pleasures tralians and also for summer plea- proved of little use as food. Dr. of Dr. Roche Lynch was I have you will be able to enjoy. If you sure cruises in modern liners Mortz, Mawson's friend, grew slow. analysed the organs handed to me like that sort of thing, in the not through the pack ico,
ly weaker and finally died, unable to by Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and have too far distant future.
I visualize before long opera survive the ordeal For thirty detected no trace of any poisoning Antarctic area as a resort centre, it New Zealand similar to the Hud-super-human struggle
Besides the possibilities of the tions conducted from Australia and days more the explorer fought a or noxious substance in them."
against The Coroner asked Inspector also may become an important point son's Bay company's activities, with frost, starvation and toil and finally Polling if, eo far as He of trade, in the opinion of the ex-isolated share posts collecting seal stumbled into his camp a mere concerned, there was any useful plorer, Fur farming might be in products, penguins' eggs and fresh skeleton. Even then he was com purpose to be served by keeping stituted on a large scale, and there fish products and breeding Arctic pelled to spend another year on the other adjournment, the inquiry open and granting an-, is a chance gold might be found white foxes."
The hidden continent of the Ant colocked peninsula, since the relief vessel sent to his ald had called arctic totals approximately 4,500,- away. 000 square miles, according to Sir Spilsbury conducted a postmortem Chiof-Inspector Donaldson said The forecast of the noted explor-Douglas.
In 1929 he again led an expedi- The Australian has had consid- [tion, this time on the famous Dis- examination on the woman which ha agreed with Inspector Pelling er puts a new light on the value of was found at Brighton, and on the that no useful purpose could be been penetrated by civilisation only frozen wastes around
the Antarctic, which so far haserable experience among the covery, once owned by Captain next day, Sir Bernard examined served by an adjournment.
the south Scott, and discovered a vast area the legs which were found at Directing the jury that they through the efforts of exploration pole. He was a member of the ex- hitherto unknown. For his work King's Cross Station and satisfied should return an open verdiet, the
parties.
pedition which Sir Ernest Shackle in the first expedition he was himself that they 'belonged to the Coroner commented that it was
Sir Douglas sees the most bene. (ton led in 1907 and was one of the knighted by the King..., ⚫ same body.
very unfortunate that notwith- An-analysis of the stomach and standing the investigations spread other organa was subsequently over a period of just over eight made by Dr. Rocha Lynch, and the months, there WAS no evidence inquest was opened on June 20 and available to enable the jury to settle. adjourned until July 18, and then the points which should receive again until August 22, when evid-attention at an inquest. ence was given of the finding of the The most important point was, of trunk,
course, the cause of death, and as there was
evidence to show how: the death occurred he thought the proper course for them to take would be to return sa open verdict. A verdict in that form would leave the matter open, and although the
Inspector Pelling replied: "None, so far as I can say."
STILL NO EVIDENCE The inquiry was then adjourned again in the hope that evidence would be forthcoming to onable the jury to deal with points which they were required by law to deal with as far as possible Inquest would be closed the case namely, who the deceased was, and would remain in the hands of the how, when, and where she came by police. .her death.
Without retiring the jury im- Notwithstanding overy effort,mediately returned an open verdict,
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