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THE OVAL TEST MURDER

by

JULIAN SYMONS

THE STORY

SO FAR PRIVATE detective

of

Francis Quarles is on the last lap of his

of investigation

the murder

umpire Charles Bowerman who died of atropine pol- soning after collapsing during the Australians first

The Innings at Oval.

Quarles was watching the match with Bower- man's doctor. Gregory dis- He has Kanc. covered that radio Leo once Mrs

commentator

Maclean Was friendly with Bowerman.

Jim Laker and Tony Lock have helped to put him on the track of the And now. murderer. accompanied by Inspec. tor Leeds, he has made an important discovery In the umpire's" room in the pavilion. He has found the "proof" with which Bowerman threatened to expose an unknown man shortly before his death.

• THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1956.

THE CASE IS

SOLVED

-NSPECTOR LEEDS balance. Most of the people

what who

staresi ,

thered in the umpire's Quarles had found, however, had their minds

in other things then the Test. "What 11 place 10 Patricia Bowerman was there,

her honey-gold hair shining, he Dice pader than usual. Maclean, whose comentario that day had been rather dis him. The Inspector listeneil, Jointer, sut there and molded

Ruddy-food umpire rubbing his chin. "That's all her eyes

hide it," he said. "But I still don't NEC how Bowerman

killed."

Quaries told

WILM

ཝཱ ཙ ཝཱ ཨནྟཾ ཙ ཏཙ well and ingenious.

You're going to have jub bringing this home to the

Quarles strolled over to the balls and selected one.

his man

en that a ...and Quarles stumps

guilty party."

Ely

The clever

play This

evening I shall bent everything Jack

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puzzleń, překet. Probably he would have iraute ingat.nit this, alat there was no time to do so, for they were due out on the Held.

in ko ar wont. Do you think you evulu... Greggory Kine thoughtful. Pads, atumps and fulle were piled hi call a meeting her seven drick

of the NATTA, of all the people aivoivist,"

Two thush very polmen skref solidly Insídky

ih..

The chur Inspector Lewis ex- planxat 1 y

them Francis Quatles Aquacies spend the rest of the hu smpeting lo say phil

Chayse Bowman's death, the Test Mite 15. wy wpleting moking

one excursions an "Yesterday I said to the ne to molle wattle Thing Jake

speeter that this come wouldn't Jolles was making to him. At dekick in the afivankaat be ke a message set up by lumel Sota Molly Plusty "Bucky A mud 18 ideatified Mon r flote*), August 11, under names Mr and Mrs Castes, { believed prANE JE

unde. D not alertalled,"

Anything fresh?

badkar,

A1 3.30 he was joined by Gorg

The

ductor laughed. Thought 3 might dead you her is there anything fresh on the

4

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The

was first is made. speedon has called a conferenICAS fog seson melock bright. Would

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Get th we found out Ahv Bavenou Thought suf key humph that Pelky brad taken hi white pail, and what the secret was that Bowerman had hidden away somewhere hery.

a he went out with the SIN drow my his pocket. He used them to count the balls of each over, Ami they killed him. One of the haxi a neat had simple little which, with the slight

JESSATE Exerted by his band, neted bike

2 hypodermic in this way Quiz pressed one of the dive sughly. Arsch two small steel tongues shot out from it.

"Do WAL

24.0 Mone slice

Bowerman's gadget came from Bowerman's pocket?”

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The golden of the white gobait solved be me worth, The meaning wlan Tony Les and Jim Leker came to see me, They d

that Bowerman tlF}

gadget called

the bail P count the morning. In the aftevan he thre What Laker ཛཱtueཀཎཅུ་ མ thought were rather something like

Ann quicle, pis duced from a pocket the sa

and black red, white riley blasted for him by Tuk Jelly

"Ne, Boweran kept nothing

a has at pockets.

There.. only one possible ryuson why se 1te white

Int

mugh

bavy thought

twoon Eagland and Australia for

time was still in

门

coat The

urgan computer

sap was but his

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Marten asikai,

"No. When Bowerman's

examined the spital the computer was in his pocket

These aggies.

skully me." me for falry

Many." sneeringly,

There were two sinal. patio – tures in the palm of Bower- right hand. Bul the Bordeaky has no doubt disposed of the dice. You are quite right,

cimet absolutely

prove my point.

That diary entry

"We neʊvo su then, to a nota found in Bowermen's diary for August 11.

"Morri It said: Hotel, Lowas Photograph. Now, Sussax play no Dounty mxdenes m Lewes. What did the ло Ita? Bowerman was umpering at Edgbaston that day, but play had been washed out. Bowenian was very jealous of is wife, Could

it be that

that bo had come down to London un- expectedly and found out that his wife had gone to

Lew perhaps even followxd her thero? I sent down an agent to make inquiries, giving him four photographs. One of them, of Me Maclean here, was not

Identified. The seond Bowerman himself, was believed to live been seen in the hotel gas. The other two peoply huet styl at the Morrin Hotel that might, a man atul wife. One The Thawerman), alber

A

.1

shack, like the squeak staril.

cture Dom Patrick Bowerman's Tips. "Oh, Greg. grou Fld me it was safe."

"Shut up." Docter Kane sald. hander, Quartes. You'll pay for it."

hun.

"The fact

Fell into place

Ihast discovered the moth d of murder, a good meny things fell to place." Quartes sand, fung that when we got here. yesterday Kane misisted u staying inside The pavilion, although we would have got a better view outside, Th. I was

Job Elat he would be at had for

extunning Bower man when collapsed, and go ang on to the hospital with him. The Bowerman' vemark bu the man he walked

to In the writing on that he meant to ruka bum-nude very good sense Mr. Kanc weave the ma Ikowerman was his patient, ami

R conduc harshest possible

receive punkstinica talked

Paris Newsletter from SAM WHITE

A SHIP-OWNER IS BITTER ABOUT CYPRUS

TN

Paris

The todge keeper of the chateau refused to allow Jesper the course of an

inside. Lady Diana, a resource- interview on the Suez fat woman, thereupon pointed crisis and the future out to the lodge keeper that role of big tankers the Jamper was 'not an ordinary dog. "It is a diplomatic dog," she Greek

Mr ship ❝wner,

"and enjoys diplomatic Stavros Niarchos, had some privileges." bitter words to say about The Joke stuck and a special

coilar

was presented to Jasper British policy in Cyprus. with the inscription: Jasper, chien diplomatique.". (Jasper, The interview, given on diplomatic dog). Mr Niarchos's yacht, the

Last week chambermaid Creole, anchored in Venice, from the Brabussy took Jasper

was published in the Paris for his nightly walk. The walk led past the nearby Presidential newspaper, Le Monde,

Palace and immediately in front Mr of the Palace, to the horror of is quoted as saying: the policemen on duty, Jasper

misbehaved. the agonising problem

This type of misdemeanour in my Greck

on this the vicinity of the compatriots

President's

Speaking of Cyprus, Niarchos

"I cannot get out of my mind

"If agreement with

the entire

of

of 5,000

to

Queries saki Judicially, "Retu-Island, Greece has never ceased palace is a codified legal offence mely

something to to offer to Britain in the event in France. The law was passed we liave back it up. The secret Bower-of Cyprus becoming Greece, the in 1888 and has been kept up bases to date with the changing value man talked about, the one you complete use of military ike to ond en his body, and not only on the islend but also of the frone, so that it is now

on the Greek mainland.

by a fine last night

punishable then bruke in here

franes (28)

on the payable Britain Ak 1. Umpire Fetty held the

had been reached before the spot clase to 11

A policeman duly began West "He told us he annived yester-Suez crisis.

and day morning and found Bower would have benefited from it, take down the particulars

its demand the immediate payment man tesileg a ball in the gauge. Britain would have secured

of the fine. Cyprus instead He said it wrs no good, and put bac

The chambermaid it carefully wide. Now, that was having to wage this endlers

to be dog s a queer thing

against the terrorists. Further resourceful as Lady Diana, She es more,

Greece would have at- told the policeman to get Queries arly in the morning."

and tended strolled over to the balls. und

the London conference his torch and read the inscrip- of boycotting ton on the dog's collar. selco'ed one, "You can see where or Suez instend

The incident ended in prafuso Bowerman cut the scam. It was

being tendered to Mr Niarchos concluded: "I apologies It really too late for Britain to Jasper. understand where Ha truo intereals Me?”

Ingenious hiding place. Bowerman's hobby wea photo- gruphy, you know. He followed you two

Lewes and managed to get a prsty picture, of which he made a note his

ny."

down to

Unforgivable

of

He peoled back the cover the ball and extracted the glossy snap. It showed Kame with his bơm round Patricia Bowerman, They

In

of wor

EXHAUSTING

To what extent does Mr DAYS Niarchos's brother-in-law, rival and fel

fellow-Greek, Mr Aristolic

Onassis, Cyprus?

share AL Onassis is cruising

VENERAL

ANDRE

EX

out

BEAU-

the

UFFRE, who commanda

*x*

on his views the moment Mr French troops newly arrived in

in Greek Cyrus, has given me on

but not unrewarding waters and it was impossible to hausting

few days. The reward Îles the fresh insight has given me into the archate conservatism French military and Foreign Office castes.

reach him.

I do know, however, that

of the were standing in a door-private conversation with British friends Mr Onassis has <x- way, koking out on to a garden.

completely con- On the back was a note in ink: Pred views

The happy couple,

trary to those of his brother-in- Morrin's

It started as an inquiry into low,

He has said on different the history of this little known Hotel, Lewos, August 11."

had been on "Bowerman was a nasty ploce occasions that he fully supports peneral He

British policy in Cyprus, uf work,' Kane must have

Quarles said to In-

General Giraud's staff, but after the North African landing ho Bowerman

"And DIPLOMATIC spector Leeds afterwards. before, and

switched to General de Gaulle. ho KITA? here yesterday

could have forgiven Kane Boy desperte man. It Was

He has also served on the staff His attempt eno enough A slip in here

all people

of the late Marshal de Lattre do change over

wiincre,

Tassigny. He was noted for the But here WOR conquer and dice thig the lunch interval, but thing I simply couldn't forgive

lucidity of his briefings, and he had marked literary tastes, Каж

bun. was the only person in the

So far so good, who could possibly have chauus them back. He did

QA

om the way to The

کده

hospital.

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masy

and

Doctor Gregory Kane was very pede, but he was still fighting". "Proof," he said hoursly. "No proot.

"There is the hotel identifCU- tion, but that might be quarted,”

10 DOC

use me-me, of kind of alibi

Its critics

Whatever One PARIS

may say, still remains in u rather special sense the diple matic capital of the

world. Consider, for example, the case of Jasper, a duchshund belong-

Miss Stella Jobb. ing to

the daughter of the Betish Am- bassador in Paris,

"What was that?" "Interfering with the Test Match, Killing an umpire, my dear inspector, is not cricket,"

(THE END-COPYRIGHT)

• All characters in The Qual

my

Then in all innocence I asked French War Office intór- mant if the general was married, He stiffened instantly and "That's a part of the private life I cannot

discuss."

Recently Lady Diana Couper replied: and Miss Jebb, accompanied by general's Test Murder story — apart from | Jasper, visited a chateau which the player--are entirely fell- has been converted Into HOILS.

museum.

THE LAND OF PROMISE

THAT

PRINCESS MARGARET WILL SEE

P

RINCESS

MAR-

GARET'S first

(

I sought out close friends of the general. Yes, they knew the general's wic. A charming

woman. Who was she? Silence. I searched through ail the reference books. No mention of la wife anywhere.

Then suddenly the mystery and the baffling silence

litted

on

the subject was explained. The general'a first marriage (on English wife incidentally) had been dissolved. His present és a former

My innate anger when dealing thoroughly

are agricultural, commercial and wife, it appears, Industrial. Here there is em- mannequin,

ployment for hand and brain, with octals Tow and when she returns to Kenya,

in the new factoring and busi-roused, I went back to the War mountain resses, in building, engineering, Office and, pointing out that I

it will bo

the to plateau, to Nairobi, to the farm-

landa and busy commercial

By GRANVILLE ROBERTS glimpse of Kenya will back far beyond their migration be the busy and thriving, 10 the Kenya coast, down but romantic, Island port of through the wars with the Mombasa, The grounds of Portuguese who followed Vasco da Gama and fought hard for Government House, the

the possession of the East Governor's residence African littoral-to the present

visita during his

to the day, in which many of them are Const Province, overlook embracing new opportunities.

When

lands she

ot the narrow, deep entrance Mombasa airport at Port Relz. to the modern harbour of the Princess will be OT the Kilindini and also the fringe of new development areas. Mombasa is a tiny island, shallower gateway to the

ulrendy over-crowded and over- old harbour, into which sail spilling on to the mainland both

on their north and mouth, The the great dhows voyages to and from Arabia satellite township of Changamwe y being founded not far from and the Persian Gulf,

the airport.

Mombasa reaches far back into history; for Chinese and Phoeni clan ailors visited

this palm- fringed const before Arab ond Portuguese invaders struggled for supremacy, They left behind them fragments of pottery, the of their settlements, ruins a legendary tradition. After them came

the Arbs; and over 30,000 of them provide the Living evidence of their former dominion along these shores,

and

THRIVING PORT

the

new

New development areas such ns Changamwe are a reminder that, history and tradition aside; Mombasa da a thriving modern port and a potential industrial Eentre, too, where the chimneys of a largo cement works already tower above the palms on the silver beaches of Bamburi to the north, and

THEW enterprises abourid.

After her visit to Mombasa, whore, are still conscious of the Princess will go do Mauri- their prout history, reaching thus, Zanzibar and Tanganyika,

Arabe in Mombasa, and, clao-

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

the general's two I asked for further concerning his present

T

manufacturing and marketing.

knew about The Princess will see a good centres of the Colony. At over deal of Nairobi

and meet the marriages,

detalls 30,00 foot, Nairabl boasts of a women, of all races, who are wife. cilmate among the most agree making their contribution to the able in the world, for it is never exciting business of buliding not suffoned. "All I can tell you is The War Office man again terribly hot and never too cold. only a elty

of but a symbo!

that the general's wife fits in Notrobl

the scri

the of strength and of progress. Government of Kenya

perfectly in the class of society and the

a senior Army officer is expect» commercial capital of the entire

NEW COLLEGE

ed to move iz East African region. In lem than The new Royal Technical ralf

century. fine modern College she will open will play INCIDENTAL butidings have been built on

a notable part in the future of | INTELLIGENCE what was once a swamp and the East Africa, laying the founda- haunt of wild game. Even today, tion of new opportunities in THE case of Ñína's five båts- within half an hour by car from region that needs more. and has produced a novel talk the city centro, you can be

ever more, stills and abilities of ing point here. As the prices looking at a magnificent pride every sort,

of the individual hats were of lion in the Nairobi National In the smaller settlements|translated into france by the Park and at most of the other such as the Kimangop region of French Press, come as'n'con- game of the African plains. A the Aberdare range, the Princesssiderable shock to French-

commentary on the phenomenal

to see how nil women ta discover that ono can growth of Nairobi is that starts will be able ing from nothing,

the rateable communities are making use of buy a hat in London for loss value of the city is already over the land and its products, while then the price of a sandwichin

In the country of the Wakamba Paris, £60,000,000.

people, she will see how

Yet Nairobi is more than the Arlenis lands are gradually QUOTE OF commercint axle of East Africa being brought under more In THE WEEK

or the political and social capital tensive cultivation and how ine".

Any blow struck in defence

of Kenya; it is a symbol of the dividual holdings, based on JMPRESARIO. Gilbert Millers new concepts that are fashioning scientide plan, are ousting waste- contemporary Africa. Ita inful farming practices, habitants ato African, Asian,

Arab and European; its interests (Continued on Page 19, Col. 3)

́==BRADUALLY "UNFREEZES"—-

HIS MASTER HAS GONE-WHERE↑

TOE. LEFT FROZEN" AFTER THE VISIT FROM THE NEW NEIGHBORS NEXT DOORTM*

By Lee Folk and Phil Davis

---TO THE MYSTERIOUS

HOUSE NEXT POOR?.

of a woman's reputation leaves ́a dent in it.

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