MYSTERY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1937,

OF BEAUTY'S

FATE

IN JEALOUSY KILLING

Warning

Spirit

By Telephone

Of Impending

Death

in

Grace Twenty-eight - year-old Cameron, Tyneside-hom wife of a Turkish Croupier at the Casino Vienna, and her four-year-old cou, are the victims of a drama augeal- ing occult influences, says the Vienna correspondent of The People.

Is the

Ismet Dzino, the husband, son of a Turkish Colonel of a noble сат- family who, in the Gal!poll

paign, killed Grace Cameron's father an offeer in the Durham Light Infantry.

After the war he visited England to seek the family of the man he killed

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the hope of passing on them souvenirs of the dead man. Fla)

fourleen, son, then abou! panied him.

accom-

He was successful inhia quest, and | the two families kept up correspond- ence afterwards.

INORDINATE JEALOUSY

Soine years later, the son of

.

the

Turkish colonel married the daughter

£50,000 NOTES VANISH:

NO CLUE

LONDON'S perfect crime

-the theft of the $50,000 Avonmore collection of banknotes, unsaleable in dis- the open market-was covered recently.

The collection of 10,000 notes, in 110 leather-bound booka. vanished from the home-one of a ΤΟΥΝ ΟΙ

ree-storeyed villas in Avonmoro Food, W., near Olympla-of Frederick Ernest Calling

Mr.

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of the British officer, and they were happy for some time despite the inordinate Jealousy of the husband.

Recently n fortune-teller consulted by the wife warned her that death nwalted her if she did not breaks with her husband. There was a roule but

There was nothing to show the-husband prevailed on the wife to the thieves entered the house. There return to him on the understanding were no fingerprints, no marks un that there would be no more accusauny window. No one heard a sound.

The tions of infidelity,

Ft. high. 4 ft. broad. On the

ster), asbestos-lined safe had been night before the iragedy the woman was called neatly. forced open i had

who ordinary patent lock. on the phone by someone

Auburn-haired Fred Catling, young claimed to be speaking for the fortune-teller. She was. fold cinema proprietor son of Mr. F. E. that unless she left the house

Catling. told the story of the theft while

detectives Scotland-yard at once she and her son would be murdered.

minutely examined the house;

OWNER AWAY

Attempts have been made to trace the source of this message, but, so far as the telephone authorities can say, no call of any kind was put through

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has

Chis-

"My father, since an illness. lived at Worthing. I live af wick. This house is often un-

to the number in question that night.| scrupled.

FIT OF JEALOUSY

Ameleto Battisti, Uruguayan gambler, lost a foriune at Biar- ritz, France, in 1920, recouped it in Cuba and South America, and went back 10 Biarritz to get revenge. This time he lost more than $370,000.

Test Pilot Crashes

Death

To

near

"It is being renovated. Three The Chief test plot of the De workmen have keys besides myself. Havilland Aircraft Company, Mr. R. Next day the husband returned to "I left the house last night at 0.15, J. (Bob) Wnight, was killed recently the house in one of his ts of insane!he workmen quarter of an hour when the liny student-built T.K. 4 jealousy. There was scene and heater. The collection WEB In *monoplane crashed

Hatfield produced a revolver, killing her and ground floor back room.

Aerodrome almost on the eve of an their son and then shooting himself. "Mr. McPherson, my foreman, attempt to establish two new world

It now transphes at the fortune came to my house at 12.15 to-day-speed records. teller had told the vietim that she The windows were fastened, the door would receive a waming through the was locked. It is not possible to get Waight planned to make his record telephone from the spirit world when in by the back, way.

altempt on the following Monday: danger threatened her.

"le telephoned to me to say he took the machine up to By over safe was forced spen, the colleo- the course from Hatfield via Duxford tion gone. I telephoned to my and Henlow back to HatBeld. father. He was broken-hearted.

He had taken-off only four minutes "It took six men to move the sal before and had made two pircuits of Due man alone could hardly have the aerodrome. The machine was loaded the 110 volumes into a car

making a steeply banked turn when without assistance.

it crashed to the ground beyond the boundary of the nerodrome.

Marcel Made £40,000 Out Of

OFFERED £35,000 "Detectives have a complete enta-

notes. of machines built by the students of They are being; circulatest to every the De Havilland Technical School for deuter.

the King's Cup. "My father was offered £35,000. Paris.for it by a collector, but he values It UUST of Marcel, who created the st £50.000.

His "Waves" gue and description of the

the

It was the smallest and one of the fastest seroplanes ever bullt for the race.

YACHT AT MERCY OF HURRICANE

Log Of Endeavour I Reveals Grim Tale

London, Oct. 2. The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post to-day publishes extracts from a log of the voyage of the yacht Endeavour I. from America, which ended at Gosport yesterday.

Mr. Ted Heard, son of Capt. Heard, her master, kept it in a loose-leaf notebook, describing in terse sen language the breaking of the towing hawser in a hurricane, after which the world was without news of the yacht for 13 days.

$ Sept. 23-Heavy rain. Wind veer- Following is the log: Sept. 12. Endeavour I.. having ing N.W. Gybed over, ship making connected up her towing hawser botter course for home. Distance with Vivn, the motor yacht, weighed from Newport 1,820 miles, to Bishop anchor at 2 p.m. and left Newport; Rock, Sellies, 74. Rhode Island, for home,

CALLED ALL HANDS

Sept. 13.Hard rain all night. Sept. 24.-Wind veered N. W. Sky looking bad. Wind moderate. Nice breeze.

234 miles out from Brenton Reef L.V. 768 miles from Bishop Rock.

1.46 pan, sea making, We called up

Viva to reduce speed to nine knots

Weather very

finc.

Rock

Bishop Sept. 25.-Noon.

Bet

as ship was beginning to pitch badly, bearing N. 83% E. 630 miles. Al- 6.p.m. Wind freshening from S.E.tered course E. by S.Ship bronching to, so lowered mizzen to case steer- and big sea running.

Ing. Lowered big staysall and SEA ANCHOR READY

small one. 3.30 pm called all Called up Viva to reduce speed to hands to lower and reet the trysall. five knots. Got sea, anchor ready in At 8 pm, took in lb. Moderate case of emergency. Called up Viva gale, Midnight, wind having mo- and told her if the storm became so derated, set squaresall and lowered bad that we had to slip we would staysail and trysail.

Ship

ride to sea anchor. At 10.30 p.m. Sept. 26-Wind veered W.N.W. wind reached hurricane force.

Gybed. 10 am. wind X.N.W. and all wash. Impossible to get for lght, set jib. Botter breeze. Bishop ward to cut adrift tow rope. Hard Rock bears N. 85 E. 175 miles. Mid- driving rain with vivid

flashes onight calm, big swell, ship rolling lightning and thunder. Had all sails heavily. stowed except the mizzen.

Sept. 27-2 a.m, calm, ship rolling 11.30 p.m. ship began to make

East heavily. Daybreak,

wind stern way. Either tow rope had

making.

set Lowered squaresail, parted or Viva had eut us adrift.trysall and big staysall. At 10.20 Ship out of control. Let go the

a.m. British tanker Cheyenne over- sea anchor.

At midnight we lash took us. Hoisted signals to her to ed the wheel. All hands went report as at Lloyd's by wireless; below and ship was battened down. moke to her by semaphore to report We kept mizzen set to keep, ship us all well; and Cheyenne proceeded hove to. So we tell her to ride it oul.

Afler

7.30 am, started to get tow rope aboard. About 70 filioms (420ft.) was hanging over the bows. a hard struggle we succeed and find that Viva had cut away.

on her course,

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Sept. 26.-Light and variable winds. Sept. 14-3 a.. wind had abated Bishop Rock . 08 E. 252 miles. and veered S.W. When dawn came Head winds, ship theking to wind- at 5.30 a.m. found ship had rode outward, gale very well and no damage was done, a.m. called up Viva on Sept. 20.-Light SE, winds. Pass- radio, but got no reply,

ed several French fishing smacks. Found log rotator was missing. 1 p.m. Belgian tanker s.s. Esso divert- ed her course to cross us, asked for hoisted signal number. We G.WS.F. and signalled "report us by

First Class Fare to Sydney: "bon wireless." She wished us [Note. It was afterwards found voyage" and proceeded on her course.

Bept. 30.-12.15

sighted Passenger & Freight Agents:- a.m. that the Din, rope hawser had not been cul, but had parted, leaving Bishop Rock, 1.30 am. Bishop Rock

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., about 20 fathoms hanging astern of abeam. 0.45 a.m. sighted

a.m. Lizard abeam. Course the Viva. It was a new hemp haw- 2.15

East. 10 a.m. several aeroplanes Telephone 28031 ser, and had not a wire core].

located us. 9.30 p.m. Start Point.--- Capt. Heard, describing the hur- 10 am-Clenky and local S.W.

rlcanc to Major Heckstall-Smith, wind. Still trying to get in touch Yachting Correspondent of

The with Viva. Decide to walt and let Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, her locate us. Later we thought it with whom he has sailed for many best to take advantage of fair wind; years, said: "There was a tremen-

SEAPLANE SIGHTED

Although it did not get a place inus flying very low West.

repairs. At noon & seopinne passed Heckstall-Smith.

Lizard.

The T.K. 4 is the fourth of a series4herefore set trysall and staysail, and dous sea and the strongest wind I at noon put ship on her course for have ever encountered. The worst home-ES.E.

of the hurricane was over in three Sept. 15.-Wind dropping. Ship mizzen was most useful in keeping hours. In the middle of it the little rolling rather heavily. Trysail bunks (attaching sal to mast) began to us riding, to it." break away. Lowered trysall for "It stopped there?" asked Major "I wonder it did, for it is not too staunch In appear- Sept, 10Wind light. Set light ance and is in a narrow part of the stay sall. Weather fine. Masthead ship." man sent aloft to overhaul rigging "It not only held, it did splendid and cross-tree guys,

work, being the only salt we had on "Sho Sept. 17.-Wind inclined to work her" replied Capt. Heard,

Brenton fear for her. along. 780 miles from round to East. Ship Just rolling rode it out well, and I never had any "One thing important to yachts- Reef L. V. and a big swell rolling all wind out. of the sails. Progress men in the hard conditions of an slow, with head-winds and light rain ocean voyage: the rubber mastband showers.

at the deck which racing yachts use, is not nearly so good as old-fashioned wooden mast wedges."

AUNST of March to de. 111- Mr. Catlong senr, said: "This is a veiled at the home for retired hair-loss, not only to me, but to

It is the only collection of the King's Cup air 'race last month. dressers, which he endowed with part nation. of his fortune, at Parmain, by the Disc its type in the word. Not even die the T.K. 4, piloted by Mr. Waight, Bank of England has so complete averaged 230 m.ph. ever the course. Valley.

collection of banknotes."

Only 27 Robert Johs Waight joined Marcel used to charge fivepence The collection's face value is ten the De Havilland Company for crimping hair. Then he

deve-thousand million pounds. It con-ground engineer in 192. He began loped his

scissor-like curling iron lains the first bank note-printed on flying in 1932 and succeeded Captain and saved £40,000 in ten years. mulberry leaves by Kublai Khan dur- II. S Broad as the company's chief He retired in 1807.

ing the Yuan Dynasty 700 years ago test pilot.

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Sept. 18. Light winds in morning. Patches of fo. One water tank empty. At midnight a calm. Ship last steerage way and rolling heavily. FIRST SHIP SIGHTED

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After the low-rope parted, added Capt. Heard, there was such deluge of water on deck that from midnight to noon the following day Sept 10-6 a.m., very foggy. For they were unable to go on deck to lifling and we signied a three-masted; haut the hawser aboard. schooner the first ship we have A table of Endeavour L's daily been seen so far. The wind backing runs shows that she made 237 miles N. W. at 11 a.m., called all hands on on Sept. 21 and 227 on the following deck to set the squaresail. Now day. running into a big southerly swell;

1.30 p.m. Slowed trysall as fore- rope was chafing badly. Had to unbend try-sall and seize On the hank. This job done 3.30 p.m., bent] tryan and stowed on boom. Ship rolling heavily and not making much headway

Sept. 20Little wind all backing West.

Ship just got steerage way. Later, little breeze making S.W. Ship Altered making better headway, course. S.E. by E and tried to pick up steamer track, hoping to get re ported. Wo are now 1,134 miles from Newport. 1,055 to Selllles, 11, p.m., lost fog fan and fixed new one. Midnight, good golni.

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