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CRIMINALS WHO ARE NOT FOUND OUT

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od to Scott and Campbell Black for UNSOLVED MURDER MYSTERIES

which their claims will Dow be overwhelmingly strong. That is

the Segrave trophy.

The trophy, which

(By Ex-Superintendent Percy Savage,

worth who tracked down Patrick Mahon, the Crumbles murderer; 100s one of $1,000, is awarded annually to the the most skilful spy-catchers in Scotland Yarth's annels; and was the British man or woman who accom-youngest superintendent' ever-appointed), plishes the most outstanding 'de-] monstration of the possibilities of

London. passengers who were killed, every

transport by land, air or water. IMA ANY murderers walk freely one of whom was identified.

After Sir Henry Segrave's death on Lake Windermere in June,. 1930, to-day."

Among their fellow-man These two children were never identified. Not only that, but no-

a memorial fund was opened, head-I served for thirty-four years in body came forward, to say that any ed by the Prince of Wales, with the the Metropolitan Police, thirty- children were missing. Now, un- object of stimulating others to up-three of which were spent in the less they were running away (in hold British prestige as Segrave Criminal Investigation Department: wich case the parents would cer

had done.

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PREVIOUS HOLDERS

and my experience teaches me that tainly have come forward), they unsolved murder mysteries roughly must have been seen off by some. divide themselves into two .cate-body, and they must have been

expected by somebody. Their The first holder was Sir Charles Bories: Kingsford Smith. Others have been: (1) The crime in which the mur-tickets must have been paid for by They may have been the late Mr. Bert Hinkler (1931),jderer himself, by cleverly covering somebody, Miss Amy Johnaon, as he then was up his tracks, may be said to have on their way to a school or to their (1982), and Mrs. Mollison laet, "outwitted" the investigatora: a parents or friends. But whatever comparatively small category; the explanation, there it was. No year.

(2) The crime in which the identification, no" claim. The committee which awards the

first by inability to establish thu

trophy, meets in the early part of police are handicapped from the The Kaye Murder Case

next year.

It is not inconceivable that the

It includes representatives of the identity of the victim, so that they two children had been murdered in R.A.C., the Royal Aero Club, News are deprived, of the most valuable the train. My purpose in quoting paper Proprietors Association, the pointer to the identity of the mur-this case, however, is to demons- Itrate again the extraordinary fact Institution of Mechanical En-derer.

This second category is exempli-that in this highly civilised coun gineers, the Royal Aeronautical

fied by the murder know as "Trunk try it is possible for persons to die Society, and the Institution

Crime No. 1." Automobile Engineers.

in circumstances which attract the Who was this girl? Aged be-widest publicity, and yet no. clue tween 18 and 25 years, and secretly to their identity can ever be obtain- murdered: her romains secretly jed.

Your Daily Smile!

of

taken to three different parts of the Incidentally, I think few people tending the already very large

"Is a telephone girl's job a pro-country-the torso to Brighton realise that that cunning murderer, element of self-government, a fession or an occupation?" asks a railway station, the legs to King's Patrick Mahon, murdered Emily prominent Japanese Officer should

Hong Kong, Friday, November 23, 1934 express his disapproval of Brit tish "tyranny" in India. It is (not long since a prominent lead-

writer.

"Neither. It's a calling."

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"Who was the first golfer?'

Laughter In Court

Been a witness before? Yea, sir.

In what suit?

y blus serge, sir.

Cross, and the head-God knows Kaye in the belief that his crime where.

would never be discovered because

Where are her father and mother, none of her friends would report her relations, her friends? Nobody her as missing. knows because nobody has missed In this case the murderer was her.

gambling not on the fact that his The "Trunk No. 1" case has been victim was a lonely and friendless given the hackneyed and mislead-girl, because she was not.. His ing description "The Perfect theory was that, since Miss Kaye had written aaying that she was uoing to Paris and then to South

Crime."

The Indian Constitutioner of the Congress party who Jehu, I Think

happened to be on a visit to Mr. de Valera in Dublin said on a There is nothing in the com-public occasion "what we have ments on the new Indian Consti-to do is to disintegrate the Bri- These indica- tution proposals that has not tish Empire." heen expected. A measure of the tions of a lack of goodwill are not weight that should be attached referred to from any wish to keep to them is provided by the re-up the spirit. to which they owe ception of what was called "The their occurrence, but because it Sexophones Simon Report," some years ago. is necessary to remind our read- A woman is never too old for a murderer of any considerable of her disappearance.

cunning. That report was also a very longers that during the period of dis- love or too young for jealousy. and intricate document, it could cussion it will be necessary to A Bachelor of Arts is a man who solely due to the obscurity of his of a cloakroom" ticket (by Mahon's not have been otherwise. The read the news sent to us with makes love to a lot of women and victim-to the fact that, although wife in search of evidence for printing and proof collecting of some discount for its place of remains a bachelor.

numerous cases of "missing girls" divorce), that led to the finding of

A Baffling Case The truth is that the person who Africa, that would constitute to her committed it was not necessarily friends a satisfactory explanation

His immunity has been It was the accidental discovery

so large a document was attend- origin, and a clear recognition A husband is what is left of a have been reported to the police, the portmanteau at Waterloo. ed by some quite natural delays, that there are many people who lover after the nerve has been nobody who knew this particular Station, and gave the first clue.. and the published date of publi- do not want this or any other extracted.

missing girl has ever come forward, When the identity of the murder- cation drew uncomfortably near. scheme of Indian reform to, suc Half a love is better than none, Some time ago I investigated an ed person cannot be established, By an effort some early copies ceed.

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A bachelor's life is one long solo equally baffling case. A woman's the police have to follow to the end

leg was found' wrapped in sacking clues of the slenderest kind. on Wimbledon Common. The leg, When the victim is known, and They Should Pull Together had been sawn off at the knee about the murderer still contrives to Two well-known dentists have fourteen days before it was found, escape the law, the problem is even gone into partnership. -

A few weeks later three leg-more tantalising. An example of bones were picked up on the com- this type of crime was the astonish- Those Changing Fashions

mon near Esher. These three ing Warsop murder. Will you love me when my hair is bones, and the limb found at Wim- grey?

bledon were fitted together by Sir Why not? I have done so when Bernard Spilsbury, and they form

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were got off to avoid the ap- One other principle that shouldly a hymn of thanksgiving. pearance of failure to keep faith be observed, and is by no means with the public and duly arrived always observed by English writ at New Delhi on the proper date.ters, is that the proper method of The form of publication could approach is what may be called therefore be observcil, but the the committee method" of dis The "second reading" actual supply of copies adequate cussion. to satisfy the Press was received stage will merely be a waste of and dispatched only as oppor- eloquence, for we are bound by tunity permitted. In the mean- promises made some years ago, time the vernacular Press had and the necessity of reform on a evidently got their denunciations large scale is prejudged both by [ready in type, and on the follow-the feeling of India and by the ing day they duly appeared; and fact that order has been restored were no doubt all the more in reliance on the good faith of fluently written because untram the Government in fulfilling meled by receipt of the subject those promises. Particularly is The Peel Engineering Laboratory been reported as missing in Lon- matter and undelayed by the it dangerous to use such vague at Pokfulam Road will be officially don. We also asked every police Pleading guilty to a summons for task of reading it. After a per- terms as "Dominion Status," an opened by His Excellency Sir Wil force in the kingdom to make in leaving her car, No. 573, unattended, usal of a number of them one got expression used in some of the liam Peel, K.G.M.G., K.B.E., M.Aquiries about the missing persons in Queen's Road Central, outside the the impression that they might cables already without any the Chancellor of the University, on reported to them, The total num-King's Dispensary, on November 15, as well have been written in thought of its implications. To December 7 at 4 p.m. Hong Kong. There is no prob- take but one of these the posi

it was brown, black, red and blonde, ed two perfect legs. The head and WOMAN CAR DRIVER

body were never found.

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ability that Parliament will feel tion of the Governor-General ta A delightful concert was held last itself free to initiate that method. using his authority to enforce night at the Helena May Institute, The second reading is expected the reserved safeguards. The in which Mr. and Mrs. Anderson to be taken in December, and theory of Dominion status is Miller, Lieut. Col. C. H. Kule and the committee stages will be pro- that the Dominion Parliament la Capt. and Mra, O. P. Jace were the vided with Parliamentary time exactly in the same position in contributing artists.

up to July of next year. By regard to its own country as

We were never able to find out who the woman was. She was between 35 and 45, and we traced every person of that uge who had

FINED

Another Cautioned

ber was so large that it took over Mrs. R. L. Withington was fined $5 a year to eliminate them. The by Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central

Magistracy this morning, mystery is still unsolved.

Mies Panay Ng, of No. 65. Sing Remarkable Mystery Woo Road, and driver of car No. The most remarkable of all iden2938, who was summoned by Mr. A. tity mysteries, in my opinion, was Landau, of Jimmy's Kitchen, last one investigated by Scotland Yard week for driving without due care six years ago.

and caution in Des Voeux Road, was

There was a rallway smash at discharged with a caution, Charfield, Gloucestershire. An

Mr. T. P. K. Kemble appeared for

that time there will have been the English Parliament in re The Hong Kong public was bit- ample opportunity for the many gard to England and the Cab-terly disappointed last night when local Councils to make their reinet has the same right to advise "Hurmat" presented The Garden of express mail train which had loft Miss Ng. commendation; and the three the King as the British Cabinet:

Mysteries at the Queen's Theatre. Leeds at 10 o'clock at night, and hundred clauses will have been The use of the phrase would im- The management are to be compli was due at Bristol at 5.30, in the studied by every educated Indian ply that the Federal Government mented on the suspension of the morning, collided in a fog with two whose interests are affected. It of India should have the right to

The express engine, was derailed and coaches were telescoped, and set on fire. Many of the passen

is certainly advisable to avoid appoint the Governor-General Programme. The money for booked goods trains. any precipitancy, but the general himself and that any restriction Boats to-night and to-morrow will be public, it is to be feared, will have of that right would be constitu- refunded at the Booking Office. - lost interest.

tionally irregular. It could Lieutenant-Commander C, A. gera were asleep at the time, and It is rather noticeable that the therefore claim itself to nomin-Brinkman and Lieutenant SAdams, fifteen were killed. Among them

ate the Governor-General; and English sources of news are all talk of safeguards under such in the Colony to day by the s.sa boy and a girl, found lying close of the United States Navy Errived were two charred bodies, those of much more reticent than the for a system would be futile. Eng eign. The natural feeling of land again and again has made President Garfield,

responsibility is perhaps partly the same mistake of taking for the cause, for it is immensely granted that rights will be used important that this scheme with moderation and good-sense should succeed in putting an end The Indian mind has a natural to the unrest, and turning politi- aptitude of strict logical law, and cal energies into more useful every care must be taken that Channels But another re

and authorities – shal defined without ambiguity

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together near the railway bridge, Nothing was found among tho wreckage by which these two chil dren could be identified, and their bodles wer badly burned that

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