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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1932.

A KNIGHT ON THE RIVIERA.

SIR W. COCKERLINE'S STORY OF CONFIDENCE TRICK.

IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS: " DID IT MY WAY."

The story of an alloged conâdenoe! | trick_involving £23,000 we told to the Bow-street magistrate by Si: Walter Cockerline, the Hull shin

owner.

"I want £9500 sterling to Gaik the business. Lead me this BUDI Everything is going well. Send the money by telegram."

He neordingly forwarded int Warren. Sir Walter continued, bad told him in Monte Carlo *nat they had won 138,000 frances. The scheme was proposed by Louis who! afterwards wont away to the solidated · Turf Exchange. When he returned he said the money bad bean won,"

TIED COUPLE TRAGEDY.

HOW THEY VANISHED" "FROM HORLEY HOME,

STORY OF VISIT BY RETIRED POLICE OFFICER..

"An American With a Cigar." · Asked about an idontication

A London paper discloses the parade at Bow-street in 1995, ir Walton anid that he took his time.atory of the tragedy revealed by the before picking Logis out, but he discovery of the bodies of 1 definitely identißed him,

Before the Court was William "I was doing the identification," and woman with their wrist strap- Sir Walter added. "I had 'n.ped together in the River Arun at Braithwaite, or Edouard Louis

way. Arundel. (00), a retired merchant, who was right to do it in my own further remanded on an extradition; You will not get people to warrant accusing him of being con-forward in the cause of justice to cerned in obtaining £23,000. from identify people if you criticise them Sir Walter at Nice by means of the like that. I am sure thas this man,

is Louis confidence trick.

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Sir Walter Cockerline. tended on a witness sammens, was now cross-examined by Mr. J. D. Camels, K.C., for the defence.

Nice and Monte Carlo,

He said the incidents involved in the charge arose while he and Lady Cockerlipe were staying at Nice, in 1983 Another man, named War. ren, took him to Monte Carla and introduced Louis to him as Mr. Watson.

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Describing Louis's appearance on the Riviera. Sir Walter said that he looked like an American with a cigar."/

When Mr. Grobel (defendia;) asked Mrs. B. why she continued to visit the house. ahe replied: "I thought I would carry on

ended the money so." When the hearing was adjourned, was Mr. Cassels said Braithwaite anxious to go into the witness-box and deny the charge.

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SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

The R.M.S. Empress of Japan arrived at Manila on February 23

a scheme which Louis proposed concerned large suma, of money.

Ho saw Louis ones only in Monte Carlo and two or three times later at his hotel in Nico. Another matam, left the same day at concerned was known as Smyth. midnight, is dus at Hong Kong on the 25th a noon, and leave Hong Kong on March 15

He declared that Louis was the man who propounded the scheme, w advance £15,000. He handed War ren a cheque for that sum, repay able on April 20, 1993.

The R.M.S. Empress of Canada arrived at Woosung on February at 1 p.m., left, the same day at 9 p... is due at Kobe on the 25th at 3,6 a.m.," will leave the same day at 4 p.m. for Tokohama where she will save for Vancouver on the 27th at 13 p.m.

"Everything Going Well" Sir Walter agreed that he was and said that since this charge aroso he had had a good deal worry which had more or less affect ed his health.

After his return from the Riviera he received a telegram from War ron dated from San Sebastian, Spain, which read':

The R.M.S. Empress of Russia will have here for Victoria and via Shanghai.. Vancouver. B. C.. Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama at noon on March 4, (Friday),

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They were Mr. J. T. Martin and Mrs. G. Goddard, who had been living here for 15 months."

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panied by Mr. Goddard, who be came known as Mrs. Martin, Many timossinco Mrs. Goddard had been heard to say: "We came here on the thirteenth and have been un. lucky ever since."

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Mr. Martin brought with him from London ladders and nouse- decorating materials, and put up & board outside his house

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Within, the first two weeks lodgers: were advortised for, and in Novem- ber, 1930, a Mr. and Mra Horley thok possession of the upper part of the house. It was Mr. Horlay who sold me of the ovents which led up to the disappearance of the couple. He said:

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to come his way. So Mrs. Goddard, whom I know as Mrs. Martin, used to get very worried. If it had not been for this shortage of work 1 Am sure they would have been per- fectly happy.

he was a retired police officer nd come to the house, accompanied by a youth, and told me that Mrs. Martin'was his wife.

"He also gaid that he had been searching the country for her for "From what I could gather Mr. months. This man did not wait to Martin had done a lot of work in speek to either Mr., Martin or Lis London in redecorating public wife. A few weeks later, however, houses.

I learned that Mr. Martin had e- He and Mrs. Goddard disap-ceived a communication from a peared on Wednesday, December solicitor respecting divorce proced 16. On the Monday before that 1ing paid him my rent, and mentioned that I should be leaving soon, hav ing obtained another post.

Just before he disappeared bo wrote a letter to his younger sister,

Mr. Bucknell, of Downha'n, Bromley. She came down to Hor- ley on December 17, the day she te lowing that on which Mr. Martin ceived the latter, and the day te disappeared.

He seemed distressed, and later in the day want to London. When I saw him that night he said" there, was no work for him anywhere;

"She told me the letter had so He went again to London ontalarmed har that she wanted to Tuesday. On the Wednesday, when

my wife and I got up and found make sure that her brother was ante. Mrs. Bucknell's suspicions, appear neither Mr. Martin nor. Mrs. God-ed to have been only too well dard at home, we concluded they founded, de had gone to London again.

Retired Policemanis Visit.

Last October Mr. Martin put his hours in the hands of eminetate agant with the request to call it as "When they did not return I re soon as possiblaulminds mad ported the matter to the polios. I At Arundel the woman was den- know by this time that Mrs. Mar-tiled to-day as Gertrude Elizabach tin was not his wife, for in the | Goddard, aged 50, by her husband, second week in November, onda | Mr.J. Goddard, a London ez- Sunday evening, a man who said police sergeant,