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JUST FANCY

THAT

you alt in certain altair

I in Yorkshire church, you

start meezing,

This is because it is made of ZEROTİK wood which Imported from Africa.

The heat generated in the seal of the sal-on chair releasca fumes from the wood which sci people off aneesing. Mr George Owens, of Glasgow, told the Amalgamated. Hociety of Wood- cutting Machinisi at Lien- dudno.

Hé waris mansonia wood banned.

DON

FORTY

the

SORTY THOUSAND children packed into Vancouver's Empire Stadium will whistle "Colonel Bogey" when Queen, drives in next month. They will be sure to know the tune--it was whistled by the marching troops in the Alve Guinness Alm "The Aridge on the River Kwai."

A

woman

MIDDLE-AGED parishioner of St Aldhelms,

Edmonton, given a pennd note

F

by the vicar th ""Tolents" schime to raise funds for the church, went back half a crown with a note saying, "Sorry, alt. I invested it on the pools and Lost,"

Rev The vicar, the David Chisholm, who objects to the pouls because "they give people the wrong dra about money." Mald yesterday: "I can't really

SIR HARRY OAKES

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1959.

IDDONS DIARY

Tell me what

Count Freddie da Marigny in 1913, with his wife Nancy

you know about the

Oakes murder...

New York. THE

THE man with the beard said: "You a private eye, or Scotland Yard, or a newspaper man?" I said: "Newspaper man." The bearded man said: "My name's Hoyt-Clement Hoyt, Saw you around in Nassau. Flying to England tomorrow, aren't you?"

I said: "No, I'm sailing, and it's nothing to do with the Oakes case -why all the questions?"

more

Hoyt if that is his name and I were sitting at the bar in the St Regis, in New York, and it struck me as

than a

coincidence with thu that the man heard should arrive and take the next steal a few them how they put the seconds after 1 dropped into

blatne her I suppose,

to

"Everyone was told it was up

pound to work for the Lord,"

From the other 60 notes

realised.

the place.

Hoyt said: "You could sent out a profit of £224 was call me an interested party, I'm getting all the stuff I can on the Oakes case..

ARTIE...

JU.S.WIVES! ORDERED:

HO TIGHT SLACKS

Art.

"I merely said 'Oh, not to be a Q.1's wife in Germany

now that summer's here?..."

Lendon Express Service

"Everything available for a book or maybe for some- thing else. Perhaps you could fill me in. You're the only journalist I think to have seen the Governor and The Attorney-General and who you have relatives know a lot about Oakes on The island."

+

Guess-work

I said: "I'm no expert on the Sir Harry Oakes murder, bat P fill you in with what I know."

I told Hoyt what I am telling you now.

knows who killed Sir Harry The two men chatted and then Christle retired to his bed roum. from Oukes.

which WDS separated Oakes's by another bedroom and a Unth.

Why has Stevenson burst the care wide open again, and why did the House of Assembly puss a unanimous resolution to

-

pen the case and call in Scot. land Yard detectives?

The answer is politics.

Stevenson wants on issue and there is no more explosive issue in Nassau on the bludgeoning and burning to

death of the multi-millionaire Oakes, a crime still unsolved after 10 years.

Top topic

The reason the House parsed The resolution was 13 force Stevenson to put up or shut up, to prodier: the evidence he was blabbing about or keep quiet.

Three

Count

miles nway the Marquis Georges de Vis- Freddie de Marigny and his pal, holding a lively dolou, were party with several pretty girls.

De Marigny, at that time married to Onken's heiress daughter, Nancy, was hardly on speaking terms with Oakes,

He hadn't called at Westbourne for three years.

brake during the The storm night and violent thunder crashed rolled over the beach, over Westbourne, and lightning I up the island.

In

CYRIL STEVENSON The answer politics

.. said the Man with the Beard

The detectives looked dubious. Thirty-six hours after the dis- covery of Oakes's body his 33- year-old son-in-law, Freddie de Marigny, was arrested and charged with murder.

His wife, 18-year-old Nuncy, flew to his side, hired Raymond Schindler and other detectives, and lined up an array of legal talent for the trial.

as

Oakes's house. The cx- Insrquis, and

for Jefti

AJ do Chal planation tudny is the Marigny was concerned his part police officer mistook Christie's was over. brother for him.

the

Cate

He can never be tried again, Throughout the trial hints of affairs and Infidelities cropped but he said the other day: " up. One of the American de- would like to see them get the lectives, Captain James Barker, murderer and solve

My punish- was so humiliated in the box once and for all.

his blundering of the ment goes on and on. over prints, his fallure to necumulate wonder

what

I often

1 am being

It was on October 18, 1943, evidence or witnessts, that he punished for. I do not pretend to his bedroom to have lived a blameless life." that the trial bey in the had to retire

with a nervous collapse.. Supreme Court, before Chief Justice Str Oscur Daly and བ jury of 12 businessmen, It was a cause celebre,

New life

He is living in Florida now, trying to make a new life with a new wife."

sad-

Christle In stel a power 30 Harold Christic in the DOX Th Attorney-General, Eric

Nassau, But aging and grew angry and shouted re- Hailiman, made the best of a

and piles, explaining exactly what bad case, but the jury

all the cussio was dened by

Eunice Lady Oakes he had done that night of leaning towartis de Marigny and heartbreak,

Is the ranking hostess of the murder, and once bellowed: "He the defence was skilfully con-

island after the Governor's was my best and dearest friend." ducted by Godfrey Higgs. In

the end it look the Jury only an lady, and Nancy is in London, hour and 50 minutes fo

There will be new sensations, their verdict. Not guilty-nine new allegations, and demanda were for acquittal and three for for new investigations. The case will never be closed, and The jury also

recommended never solved,

Perhaps Mr Hoyi, my bearded immediate deportation as un- desirable of de Marigny and the friend, has other views.

A collapse

their best detectives to investi- In the confusion gate the case. the Miami men thought the Duke had described the case as suleide and

came to the island Christie stirred restlessly

singularly ill-equipped. his bed. He had said goodnight to Oakes at 11.30 p.m., and he From the start the Miami was the lost man, except

botch the detectives made a

of Oakes alive. things.

denied strenuously the. murderer, to see

their They had left

a behind testimony of paktee officer Daha Freddie's party broke up about Angerprint cameras The Governor of the

drove the last and relied on

crude methods that he had been seen in Nos mus, Sir Rayner Arthur, told 1.30, and he

front 10- me, "This call for a reopening guests home, aparl

with Scotch tape and plecos of sat in a car and had, in fact, is a misunderstanding. Un-year-old Betty Roberts, who rubber to obtain prints.

on with the marquis, solved murder cases are never ingered

who shared de Marigny's house.

clusexi."

He showed me the resolution of the Hotse and I chatted him and his Attorney- with General Orr, who was present

We

Crude job

for about half an hour before Betty was finally driven honen

at 3 a.m. by the marquis, and Lady went to the drawing-roam at Government House for drinks, de Marigny had gone to bed

about two o'clock.

Everyone is talking about the

No trace

the

At first they jumped to conclusion that Christle had murdered his friend, and had scattered features and set the body cu fire to give the im. pression of a voodoo killing by Eunice native. They asked

Ookes, who was away from the island, as was Nancy whether Sir Harry had any enemies. The fact was he had The next day I went to Mr

because of The day came up clear and scores of enemies Ore's cottage. joined his beath

methods, First, I don't think Cyril-party, and again talked about bright after the storm, and his ruthless business

Christie, up at 6.45, went along his rudeness and arrogance. the case.

the few feet of balcony separat- Stevenson, the leader of the

Ing the bedrooms to call on Sir progressive Liberal Party

Harry and have breakfast with and Elitor of the weekly Nassau Herald, who re- have revived the interest in the He rapped on the door and vived the case, has any murder in the U.S. I have pushed it open. He SEW the hours and submitted 10

ut Bes When one over suores new evidence at all.

and bedy of his friend covered In decuments, read the court cords, obtained photostats,

re blocd and burned feathers,, the and head bashed in, the loins hor- what follows is, 3 believe, a fair ribly mutilated by what after recapitulation.

walds was described as a blow torch. Christle yelled: "Good The air was humid and there heavens," and went over to his was a threat of a thunderstorm friend. The body was still neck, chest, or anywhere else. when Sir Harry Cakes, whose warm and Christle thought fortune was estimated

Oakes was still alive. He tried The detectives, who now said £5,000,000, called in his close th pour some

water down they land found a fingerprint of friend and house guest, Harold Oakes's throat, and then he de Marigny's in Oakes's bed- Christic, for a nightenp

went to the telephone and room, asked him to submit him- called several friends and the self for examination for burns.

he named the alleged mur- derer to me it was guess work, based on conversk tions with the American private detective Raymond Schindler, now 77 and fad- ing. Schindler himself in New York concedes: have no evidence," but con- tinues to assert that he

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It was the night of July 7, police. 1943-a night to remember for De Mariany Nassau and the Bahamas, Oakes formed. And at it. a.m.

was also In had made his money out of gold Duke

the of Windsor, mining In Canada, out of real General of the Island at that

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was my beat and closest friend." nearby Miami to send two of

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Christie was questioned for

examination for singeing bums, the theory being that the murderer was bound to

have suffered burns during or after the crime. No trace of burns or singelng was found anywhere en Christle head, bonds, army.

They found that hairs of de

·Marigny's "beard, his head and his hands showed singelng or minor burna. De Marigny ex-

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