1933-12-18 — Page 11

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1933.

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HE CHINA MAIL

The Fenchurch Street Mystery Ve » Eleven:

(Continued from Page 10.) neath the table. It contained aundry {letters and biite, all addressed to Wi)- "Then a gigantic sign of expectancy liam Kershaw. This pocket bonk-was came from every one of the spectators, produced, and Karl, Muller, what had The 'fun' was about to begin. James returned to the court, easily identifed Buckland, a porter at Fenchurch street it as having, belonged to railway station, had just sworn to tell lamented Intent to his dear and

amount much Ha said that at sizingnina) Live all the truth, etc. After all, it did nor This was the first blow to the case the accused It was pretty o'clock in the afternoon of: December staff ane, you will

Already the 10th, in the midst of one of the had begun to collapse like house of dentest fors he

the cards. Still, there was the assignation, ever, remembers, 5.5 from Tilbury steamed into the and the undisputed meeting between station, being just about an hour late Smethurst and Kershaw, and these two He was on the arrival platform, and and a half hours

evening to was hailed by a passenger in a first-satisfactorily account class carriage. He could see very, It. The man in the corner made a long tle of him beyond an enormous black pause. fur eout and a travelling cap of - fur " assure you," he resumed at last, piso

"that at that very moment the whole

"The passenger, had a quantity of mystery was, to me as clear a day- luggage, all marked, F.; and he light. Francis Smethurat spoke with directed James Buckland to place it alla curious nasal twang, and with an al- upon a four-wheel cab, with the ex-most imperceptible soupçon of foreign option of a small handbag, which he accent. He calmly denied, Kershaw's carried himecif. Having seen that version of his past; declared that he his luggage was safely bestowed, the had never been called Barker, and had stranger. In the fur coat paid the por certainly never been mixed-up in any

and, until to wait murder case the woman.

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the direction of the rooms, stiil {pe^^ina 7′′ -

carrying his small Buckland, talking to the driver about the accused quietly, I have never, to

I stayed for a bit, added James Pardon me, your Honour," said

the

Southend 'ad been signalled, most

minute later

Honourer wrote those letters

Dorothy Hasell. 11-year-old brida of T. J. Halsall 67, la shown back at school in Oklahoma City after a „Judra” had annuled her marriage. In court the child said shé war wod. without ber, consent. Probation off- "vers said Dorothy's “Cather, J.. T. :- Taylor, “traded" "bbr for Balsell's

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and that; then I went about my knowledge, seen this man Kershaw, my business seein' that the local from and I can swear that I never wrote ta

him "The prosecution

Never wrote to bim ? retorted his strongly upon the hour when the Honour warningly. That is a strange stranger in the fur coat, having seen, assertion to make when I have two of to his luggage, walked away towards your letters to him in my hands at the waiting-roots. The porter wes|the-

he present moment. comphatic. It was pot મ than 0.15, he averred.

persisted the accused quiet. "Sir Arthur Inglewood still had ne ly, they are not in my handwriting. questions to ask, and the driver of the Which we can easily prove, came it was clear to me from the first that cab was called.

in Sir Arthur Inglewood's drawly no one could have written, those two "He rroborated the evidence of tones, as he handed up a packet to his letters except Smethurst. You will James Buckland as to the hour when Honour; here tent since he has land-not to have bɛén, written by the TAN are a number of lettuts argue that those letters were proved the gentleman in the fur coat had en- written by my vaged him, and, having filled his cab ed in this country, and some of which the dock Exactly Remember

Kershaw

careless man he had to waff And cabby did walt,

“As Sir Arthur Inglewood

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origoner,

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Juggage in the lost bled a few lines, together with his ten by Bm

Smetburst. But suggested Polly, property office, and of looking, out for signature, several times upon a sheet another fare-waited until at last, at of

It was easy In

In read notepaper.

"Wait minuta," he interrupted,

eyes,'

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a quarter before'nine, whom should he upon the magistrate's astounded coun-while knot number two appeared upon see walking hurriedly towards his cab tonance that there was not the slight the scene."It was proved that siy but the gentleman in the fur coat and est similarity in the two handwritings days after the murder. William Ker- Pan, who got in

"A fresh mystery had cropped up riuni Botel, where already he wat in quickly, and told the

shaw was alive and visited the Tor: drives to take him at once to the Hotel Whe, then, had made the.arsignation Cecil. "This, cabby declared, had or with William Kershaw at Fenchurch-known, and where be conveniently left curred at a quarter before nine. street railway station? The prisoner pocket-book behind, so that there The next witness, Constablo Tho gave a fairly satisfactory account of should be no mistake as to his iden Inas Taylor, had noticed a shabbily- the employment of his time since his tity; but it was never questioned wher dreased individual, with shaggy hair landing in England,

Francia Mr.

Smethurst, the millionaire and beard, loafing about the station I came over on the Tsarskoe Belo, happened to spend that very sam› and waiting-roome in the afternoon of he said, 'a yacht belonging to. 1 friend Dictember the 10th. He seemed to be of mine. When we arrived

at ed

you don't mean?”. gaib- watching the arrival platform of the mouth of the Thames there was such Tilbury and Southend trains,

is dense for that "It was, twenty-four

moment please,” he added "TWO

"How did come Reparate and independent withours before, it was thought safe for triumphantly.

cleverly unearthed by the me to Con-olice, had seen this same

not land at all; he was Hotel was brought into court at all? into the first regularly frightened at this

and of How

did Sir. Arthur Inglewood or class waiting-room at about 6.15 on fogs. He was going on to Madelen rather his client, know that William W

dnesday, December the 10th, and go

immediately

had on those two memorable straight up to a

gentleman in a heavy actually landed on Tuesday, the occasions visited the hotel and, that its fur coat and cap, who had also just 10th, and took a train at once for landlord could bring such convincing come into the room. The two talked town. I did sea to my luggage and e

evidence forward that would for evar tegether for a while; no one heard enb, as the porter and driver told your exonerate the millionaire from the im what they said, but presently they Honour; then I tried to find my way putation of murder? walked off together.

|to a refreshment-room, where I could

The Do the arrest at the Fotal had kept the whole affair "The employers of the Hotel Coeil et glass of wine. I drifted into the very dark

They did not put into the gave evidence as to the arrival of Mr. waiting-room, and there I was accost-Greil. Smethurat at about 0,30 pm, on Weded by

If anyone happeds shabbily-dressed individual, papers the mal:

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nesday, December the 10th, in a cab, who began telling me a piteous tale, to know of the whereabouts, etc., etc. with a quantity of luggage; and this Who he was I do not know. He said Had the landlord of that hotel heard rlosed the case for the prosecution. The was an old soldier who had served of the disappearance of Kershaw

"Everybody

and.

der of one William Kershaw, on Wed-mil through the 10g, but into the led to be the body of William Kershaw

nesday, December the 10th, between my

in that court already his country faithfully, and then been through the usual channels he would aw Smethurst mounting the gallows, left to starve. He begged of me to have put himself in communication 11 was uninterested

Bir Arthur Ingle Caused the elegant audience to wait I could see Trying chil-wood come on

him to his the track his wife B.I. Aprar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for and hear what Sir Arthur Inglewood dren,

"Point number four Mrs, Kershaw had to say. 1st and 2nd class passengers. ·

added the was never requested to product "He waited to make his effect -Sir prisoner with noble, frankness, fit. way specimen of her husband's handwelt. Arthur is a born actor and there is my first day in the Old Country, I had ing. Why? Because the police, ele no doubt int he made it, when in his come back after thirty years with my ver as you say they are, never started slowest, most drawly tones he amid nockets full of gold, and this was the on the right track. They believed Wil quietly:

first sad tale. I had heard: but I am ham Kershaw to have been murdered; With regard to this alleged mur business p and did not want to be they looked for William Ker

Kershaw, "done" An, the age I followed On December 31 what was presum 7,000 30th DeL 7,000 3rd Feb. Malla, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & 6.15 and 8.45 p.m.. your Honour, I now streets.

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Tuesday afternoon, December the 16th, ment, that my gentleman had given me ed It is in all conscience, is it not? 7,000 2nd Janu

that in to say, qlx days after the sun (the

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The

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“well, you see, I had made up two and a half hours elapsed" while I of decomposition, and, of course, could ...my mind long ago where the hitch far thas wandered on in the dark and de- not be identified; but the police would

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Kershaw was his m

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riani and anwalted at his hotel in the these two letters

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Honour {replied. the prisoner of it all! Hii disguise) » Komahaw 2. shabbily-dressed individual lolled in- quietly, 'I-have, proved to you, have a shaggy beint hair and moustache.

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