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It looked like a tragedy by moonlight. but where was the body?....and who was the shy girl in the red cloak?

THE CASE OF THE

BOGUS

HE moon rode high

and full over

HEIRESS

the JOHN HOLLAND tells another of the World's Strangest Stories

Welsh hills, its

beams floodlighting cumstances of the tragje ride The cliff rond. The car alag the Welsh const.

"Where was the poor, drown- sped eastwards, the pretty young woman at the wheel body" was one of the ques- xulting in the thrill of the water le enough to drown e

Alons

they asked. Very litro night ride. At her side sut

babycovers the sands below her sister, behind her the the ne rond round Peamaen- And chauffeur momentarily giv. mawr even at high tide.

how was the body washed away ing over the wheel Lo

when a shallow sandy

shelf employer.

Arriel from the clift Tor Where was the Thi

half a

his

WIN 1969 Mod or car were rate to North Wales nai a woman driver was an affint

Pembach

tiv-

Point

tu nature Then as rounded

A twisting skid Came Tragerly

Et the frail car Flowed into the stone wall and body hurtling through the shatter

windscreen). screaming

night and rolling, over and over down the 40-foot side of the eliff.

tide.

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.and

It

blood that must have been spilt when Violet Charlesworth was hurled through the windscreen? And the car itself-why, i had

collided with the cliff wall, was it at clumaged? The steer- ing wheel behind which Viot Charlesworth hurt eat, was touched.

Distressed

when

un-

VIOLET CHARLESWORTH

She lived a life of luxury on the strength of a legacy which never materialised,

her lover and benefactor had lost his life. This touching bet

The superintendent of police, the splash as it hit the water to on arriving at the scene of the chauffeur be washed quickly away by the accident, packed the

home. and the young lady off Such was the story that the They were terribly distressed, of devotion brought tears to the

girl and the POLAT

chauffeur

the superintendent eyes of her creditors und eb- told us they sat on the elf thought about It afterwards,

* tuned for her every

penny of edge, bruised and almost how had the chauffeur, thrown

111-

the life savings of a trusting old full of tagged woman, who, rock an to a ensible when help came. Mon-

was left destitute of points, lity" papers

escaped injury? were full of it; of the tragedy of the Lady Lillan Charlesworth, for all the by her misguided generosity.

But where was Violet Charles- Motorist's

the unnerving experience she Death" as

worth? Where had she down? headlines had it-a tragedy been through and all her up A young lady in a crimson cloak that touched the nation when it parent distress, was boneath was seen crossing from Holy- beCarDe

known that the lady, all remarkably calm. The nurse bead to Kingstown, and

t Miss Violet Charlesworth, was at the home to which the two hunt was

hunt was immediately on. For within.

few days of inheriting were taken sald afterwards,

nover saw a womun 50 calm

And

had

w

said that Violet had after such a terrible accident,

fortnight the public, tightly throwing the salt of tragedy over its left shoulder, turned to

D longe fortune.

It was T+ Leen engaged to

Ariny The Press, not so hamstrung the more lasting excitement of officer named Gordon, who het by the law of libet as they are

their Africa and today, made up rome out to South

HOT

เก

Was *

the hue and cry Where was minds the lady in the crimson cloak? died ore his way home, leaving quickly. Violet Charlesworth The man in the street developed

all his money-close on was not dead. The accident £200,000 that he would have

Violet Charles fl fake. inherited on her 25th birthday, worth had never been in the 60, she was young and motor car that moonlit Satur- pretty, her life had day night. But she had almont choked with appeared. Why?

Even

rich nud

TICTA bot

Juxury

Instantaneous.

ovicict capacity seving red. Charlesworth was sighted simultaneously at Birmingham, Crowe, Swansen, Bray and the Isle of Man.

But a young journalist was

demnurt young creature was without a doubt Violet Charles- worth, though throughout their interview she denied it.

Violet.

There ope

at the Old Bailey for conspiring to obtain monty on false pre- tonces. Both were sent to prison: Violet for five long years. No proceedikers, were taken against Lilan,

Violet reached for

It was made clear at the trial that the whole system of fraud For a little while longer she was decicctved and developed by kept up the furen but when the the other, who for years had police arrives at Oban with her trained her daughter to act the sister, Lillan. she at last ad part of a young heiress. She mitted she was

the vanished "borrowed" hundreds of pounds from trusting neighbours on the wishes the story strength of her daughter'a bogus right have eikled, but there was expectations, only to be "out- sequel, sordid and unwelcome. bid" later by Violet herself. A gullible public feted Violet Where her mother had simed at Charlesworth

Inundreds heroine: she was given a muste- thousands, hall contract of 300 a week to appear thrice-nightly dressed in her crimson cloak in a 14-minute It was Violet who had set up ketch entitled "A Clever the imposing home at St. Aaph, Women." She herself did all her Violet who had rented the house own business arrangements. But in Scotland, Violet who had when she walked on to the stage built the kennels at Well, It of the Canterbury Music Hall was Violet who had printed the i Westminster Bridge Bood all fine notepaper adorned with a she could do was rtand and be phoney suped al

ww

1

Only Way Out

crest and the motto

Death rather than Theor

This was too much even for a which was so effective in re- toolish public. She was hissed plying to tradespeople's demands,

But and laughed at, but already a

Violet's chickens at last home to roost and her Sunday newspaper had paku ber came

large sum for her "life story. carefully staged "death" was ber More than

out. a year later the only way

Her mother remained unscru real story came out, Bankruptcy

were proceedings

Instituted pulous in her small way right to

Standing beside i against her her debts amounted the bitter end.

£27,000. She and her mother her daughter in the dock she lied inroocnice. "I believed mysterious figure who had her far succeeded in keeping in Violet," she said, "and I was led

background-were convicted astray."

so

the

AT THE UNIVERSITY:

LOVE-NOT EXAMS- CAUSES TROUBLE

OVE, .or Lo

and success, Sho and And when it was recalled thel me at their villa in St few days was to inherit a large close on her trail. He followed university students than all behaviour of parents,

her sister, Linn, spent most of that this way the girl who in a

car, a fortune the question grew.

hor Conway, then to Crowe, the A then to Glasgow then trong

lack of it. Next on the list of culprits, causes more harm to according to the doctor, is lack of love at home or the foolish

Adoh, where each had

to cramming

pass He

"Over-ambitious མ་་་ chauffour and innumerable pile of her anbet music was blizzard and snowstorm, sexaminations.

parents may expect more of scrtant. In Wiltshire she rent fou

found in

West Dad store mountains and stroms to tho

That is the theory of Dr their children than their capaci od a large hall, redecorated it They were mainly Scottish airs Western Isles of Scloland and Ronald J. Sull of the student dies Justify, Even the self- and-filled it with kennels for, and her favourits were mark- located her at lost Tobermory, health department of Lexis sacrificing father or mother may 1. And, of ed. Heavily scored was "Will en Stevenson's romantic Islanti University. He produces figures lead a son or daughter to plan

there

Q house in ye nae come back agen?"

Scotland 拎 ร Ross-chire homo, where the shooting war knows to be excellent and where she could drive her feet of cars wildly over the moun- tals and the moors.

of Mull. There she had arrived which will cause discussion In their time unwisely."..

the by Act of Devotion Gradually the truth emerged, and

Violet Charlesworth had good and her tightly

wearing bridal white „Dr Stili suya-quite boldly that,ince of brothers or sisters may utils were coming in trades to be recognised by the local who entered a university this the less abayikrable strain for

reason for disappearing.

D

dealers

of

other acute

MacBrayne steamer,

every home where there is a boy Clansman, with her rich furs or girt - with a chance of a Worse still, “invidious | com-

corded boxes university education.

*parisons between the perform- The and

beneath her crimson cloak, only one out of every 10 studente produce men's bills, jewellers bills, baker as the young woman who, acasion in Britain is a potential, Dr Sull belleves too that Another Estate tals agents' bills, motor

many students get to univeral- Violet decorated the house bls: There was a petrol bill two summers ago, had cut such case of mental illness:

Els verdict is based on a study or who should never have gone a considerable-dash in the town..| with the tarian of her clan, the for £28, and when someone in

Locked Up of the undergraduate population there in the first place. Gordons, and was well known St Asaph did a little sum

at Leods. It has led him to

These youngsters with in- in the social life of Invernitsa, beautiful Mus Chucksworth, was to Oban, sesioned as Macfica, 20 vu that not, or dometa herent eneste domorustrate their

Northern attending the

Miss registered at

students become affected only to be pursued by

in the red to the tune of some son's Palace Temperance Hotel mentally some degree, but unsuitability by having attacks

of depression, or other Lin the name af Margaret fortune-seekor in the Bighlands, several thousand pounds.

that two or three percent will. £10,000 on Cameron McLeod and locked show up as serious, or mo-University

symptoms. And then just before that aw- She was dwing.

in stocks

and herself up in a private room, a ful might-ride along the Welsh.. fier

derately serious, quaen. who ghares.

Had, copeipponlong, tho, Bank

busi frightened mouse domo

hiding behind ners with Violet apolce of once the Walrus and the Car gentle and shy, tactful yet firm:posure lay just outdo

us the wainscot, unaware that ex- ́ ́of her as

· And he blames trustrated love Пожа such quare none could suggest the air of BIL “The

most important announced

young journalist walter jos one of the kit," she'

moment, then caught her causes of the trouble, E through ter solicitor In London adventures It was clear that hie,

-Looking into), many example Pryse we looking for yet most had given the girl, credit, unawares in the drawing room.

ter estate of the value of on the strength of her aherit He knew her too weil by now: of prolongest absence

ange, story, Burt mat all were the soft, wavy brown hair parted gludion is still says that fear Interest in the tragedy

tradcapople anxious to have in the middle the tiny face with it falling exams, over work or greedy share of the girls the mall taplashilike an acid, to sta a curriculum are rarely

bark on art templo, her

When I going badly inen -

wierd

'}, {urt, "before" sho night Elio Violeti

déalárod‘she

health experts

doubtles hurry along to try to

futute all, These fataron, and pumptions, “Kidood, one (or two have already done so.

“But there is to doubt that all is not entirely well in uninity

*The micide

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