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and the events that led to the most controversial trial of the century.

Who were the mysterious men who came by boat?

(Continued from page 5)

The girls Tefl early, and Hubbard, who knew Oakes only slightly and was eager to culți- vate the friendship, Jnvited the group to dine with him at the Prince George Hotel.

"No, no," sald Harry. will all have dinner here."

A party

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That afternoon de Marigny had raced his yacht Concubine, Nancy was not there to watch. She had gone to Mexico somo weeks previously, and kind hern taken il. To reenver, she had gone to the United States.

But Freddie de Marigny was in high spirits. He returned to the house he had taken in Victori· Avenue and bathed. He left instructions with the cook and servants for a dinner party of indefnite numbers, and then went to the Prince George Howt to so friends.

Freddie Certia one of his invited guests. War already there in the har talking to two glis, unt by qurite ALIC K blonde.

Ceretta introduced them tố de Marigny as Mrs Dorothy Clark and Mrs Jean Ainslie, the wives of two Air Force officers whe had been sent by their husbands Lo 1hr wartime safely of NPESAU. De Marigny Invited

them

ta dinner and They

accepted.

A storm

The party at Victoria Avenue was as nohy as the party at Westbourne was decoroUS

Eleven

טופחות

people

Jurned

them Georges de

and

Roberts, Betty

Visdelou, his pretty cinema-cashier friend, who was wearing the Veronica Lake peekaboo bang hair style popular an the time.

a phone

SIR HARRY OAKES... call to the Duke of Windsor's

secretary.

GUESTS AT THE PARTY : de Marigny's friend Georges They were af Visdelou with Betty Roberts.

de

de Marigny's party the night before Sir Harry died.

thurlers

of an hour, and then fell asleep.

The party Victoria Avenue

was quieting to a close. One by one rald The

Kuests goodnight and drove home. By only midnight Dorothy Clark and Jean Ainslie, Marighy's

de

GOVERNMENT HOUSE OCCASION: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor inspect nursing volunteers. Nassau, though far from the battle fields, had its war effort to contribute to the Empire's cause. But the Colony's close-knit society still pursued fis pleasures and rivalries, ........

Rears later

saw crashed through the, side of Sir went swore br Harold Christie sitting in the Harry Oakes's skull, just above Christie's room, front weal, though not driving, and behind the ear. Someone else was al the wheel. but Sears could not Three times more the boxxly of

Him or

state Sir Harry

Qakes shuzidered he, was black or under blows.

Identify

whether

white.

evra

Seurs continued going west and thought no more about it.

Unfi latër.

Awakened

had

Two bechrooms away Harold tossed turned and Christie restlessly. Mosquitoes penetrated his netting and were tormenting him, He switched

on the light, caught the little Nor was this all. At three brutes, and killed them.

back to sleep friend in the morning something dis- went Georges (who lived torbed de Marigny and he woke awakened again, this

Dat at the with a start. house), and Betty For a second he did not know

in

ip sora, bennever, by the care- Roberts were left.

who was taker.

surprised. Marigny Such nocturnal visits to the island were mausual to say the Icost.

Finally de what it

through

was, and

a tremendous Ihundereinp.

by the balcony

He may have been looking for something, but he found what

dia he

not expect, another sleeping figure. He departed, leaving Bugerprinte-an the out- şide door.

·

to back from the blackened, un- "I shouted. The body was feeling body. The fire instead still warm. I ted his hoodi of destroying all Westbourne, as and put a pllow under it, took the assassin had planned, was a glass of water, and put some being blown out by the wind. on his mouth.

The electric fan was stili Down came uneasily and the

going. Orkes was lying on his winds buffeted the hatime.

back.

At Lyford Cay, the story gara. the caretaker katy the return of the car he had seen carlier. Men climbed out and

the motor-boat which into then went putt-putting of into the darkness.

The flames

Harold Christie awakened and looked at his watch, } was seven o'clock and he and Harry Oakes had an appoint- ment to Inspect some, new sheep Avenue, that Oakes had bought.

He got out of his bed and made his way, tousled and bore foot, to the bedroom of his friend.

At the

The news

Victoria cotinge in Alfred do Marigny dressed and went in his car to

tile diven in the

the police station to get a lleence for one of his cars. He drove from there to his farm and got back Into Nassau shortly after Back at Westbourne. the Не looked around

morning. On names played and tapped over smoking shambles horror, the way a friend called out

for a second to take it "Sir Harry is dead.” Then he cried. "Harry! For God'a "I went into the mum

He but was time by

then he

Sir Harry Oakes was dead, a long, and vialent to violently ended,

It

The

produced

Sir Harry Oakes. The electric unable a fan continued to hun, and the all in.

wind blew in from the sea.

to

from the burning Feathers bed danced

in

sake!"

and

to take realised it was Grisou, a Maltese offered Dorothy and Jean home. cat belonging to Georges, after-

intruder the nutely hissing aud mewing. They hurried

of petrol and poured it pouring rain and the thunder had become caught between the drum

Lincoln Vrnction blind and the over the bed, then set fre and lightning to his

il.

in the wind and saw some_smoke," said Christic He picked up the body of At 11 Hubbard excused him- Continental and all sal in the mosquito screen.

"Then I rushed to the self, thanked Sir Harry Cakes front seat.

De Marigny turned over and Sir Harry Oakes and put it on settled over the body, giving it later,

Sulf the man a dappled look.

bed and found Sir Harry with for a pleasant evening and drove

Jean ved at tried lo sleep. He heard the funeral pyre. Dorothy and is Heaneage home.

But the flames did not spread. his clothing burned off and raw outside talking

not leave. He pocketed Hubbard's

Number Georges Collage,

then They started to fade away, fall spots on his body. Harold Christle decided to Two, standing almost next door Betty, and heard him drive Harry Oakes's automatic.

with side of

her. Georges returned a few minutes later nione

the De Marigny heard door alem.

"Georges!" de Marigny shouted in the darkness from his bed.

spend the night at Sir Harry's. One of his characteristic hobits.

There was much chaff about de Marigny's Van Dyck beard, "Don't let Nancy know." de Marigoy pleaded "I want to particularly in this period, was

take the old girl by surprise.

I had started to riún hard, so de Marigny's plans for dinner outside were hustly abandoned

1 sleep wherever he happened

to dine.

to and on the Westbourne.

way other

Raining...

"Yes!"

to did

"Come and take your damned rat out of here," Georges ild

So, moving herrtainly through the gloom

They passed the Oakes house, He borrowed a pair of brown

was in darkness. Dr silk pyjamas

from his friend, which and his bed was made up by the Marigny said goodnight to the

drove and

back home, servants, two rooms away from Kirs

artain past Wesiboume, alone. Sir Harry's with an eroply bed-

He climbed the outside stal Foom and bathroom in between.

to Georges' apartment and asked Horry pui

his on

own it he should take Betty home, and out drain.

Rather humily Georges declined and said he would take Belly

himself. home

De Marigny went to bed.

He lit some hurricane lamps and candles at the dinner table, singeing his hands and beard in the wind, and swearing eritil. In the process.

"There's a

hell of a storm pyjamas, switched on the elec- brewing," said someone.

trie fan, and went to be Under the mosquito netting.

Christie sat on a chah und the two men chatted a while

A game

Black night

Then Christie got up and yawn- it was a night of nightmares, darkness.

Two eyes glittered in the There was no sound ed and asked Sie Harry to lend ghosts and horrendous noises. except the rain falling in to At Weslbourne, after dinner,

and awake, Tents outside and the whirring Oakes, Christie, Hubbard, and him a pair of spectrcles. Oakes Everybody, asleep

In the central of the electric fan in S. iny Ti night indicted where they were and was disturbed.

area of Nassau strang air Oakes's Bedroom.

was black. happened.

The eyes flickevi left and fight. missing no detail of what was going on inside.

Mrs Henneage, withdrew to lay switched on the radio. n game of Chinese checkers. Outside Westbourne heavy sens pounded the rocks

Christie took the glasses and

S

picked up the latest copy of o Superintendent Edward Sears, It had a picture of ut the Bahamas Police Force, Seventeen mites awon at magazine.

an experienced officer of impec- Sir Harry Oakes was not in the opposite end of New Pro- Rusia's Marshal Vasilevsky on

cable reputation, was driving bed. What he was doing was to vidence Island it was said the cover.

Street into George he a matter of conjecture later. for bleeding." long Bay and do not want to pursue

said the captum.

Street around mänight. It was Harry Oakes, in the course this

ten for that a storu

of his mysterious relsing hord

movements, motorboat pulied up at Lyford "Good night, Harry."

"Good night, Harold."

At the site of the old Island was bending down, his head on island, disembarked. It was about 11.30. Christie Bootshop 'a station 10 the

wagen side. entered a waiting car, and climbed under his own mosquito pissed him travelling at about The prowler stepped forward drove of. They were alleged resting, read for about three- 15 miles an hour.

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