1927-11-02 — Page 11

NEW SERIAL STORY

THE MERAFIELD MYSTERY.

CHAPTER XV.

By R. A, J. WALLING. (Author of "The Third Degroo.**Fatal

Clove," etc.).

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

RICHMOND PARK CRIME.

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HIDDEN CORPSE OF GIRL

TYPIST...

Park-keeper Hicks, while going on his rounds in Richmond Park recently, found near Robin Hood Gate, the body of a well-dressed girl hidden in the bracken.

amished.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

PENANG HOSPITAL

TO-DAY'S INTERPORT

TRIAL.

SCANDAL.

UNITED SERVICES DISMISSED VISITING COMMITTEES STRONG

FOR" 145..

LETTER TO P.C.M,O.

The Interport trial match. be-.

Penang, Oct. 26. A sensation has been erented tween a possible Hongkong XI and the United Services was com-locally by the resignation en blac monced on the Hongkong Cricket of the Visiting Committed, of the Club ground at 10.20 this morning. General Hospital. A letter from when the latter team opened with Dr. A. L. Hoops (Principal Civil Garrett and Dynes against the Medical Officer)-calls-attention to bowling of Dobble-and-Recu.

the fact that the Committee's duties are inspectorial and that in future" if information is required" by the Committee on points of ad- ministration, etc., the members should address themselves to the Chief Modical Officer,

She had been strangled with a handkerchief, tled tightly round HHHHH her throat, her face was battered

and covered with blood, while her The Services were given a good smile na I read the charge against clothing was torn to ribbons, start by the first three batsmen im-that he was accessory to the There were signs of a desperate but none of the remainder reached How had this young woman perfnet of the murder of Sir Charles struggle in the vicinity where the double figures, the team being suaded me to do a thing of which Mernfield both before and after turf

runs. Ligut, the dismissed for 145 I could not have conceived myself the crime.

was trumpled, and

The Committee replied that, as a capable a month before?-to enter Rossiter himself was the only woman's short umbrella was found Dynes batted well for his 68 and

he received valuable support from result of a visit to the Hospital, the into a conspiracy with her against witness. He proved the arrest of what nine people in ten wouldAtkins, who,

The girl had been murdered and both Garrett and Hull, who be Committee found a deplorable when formally

tween them contributed 41 runs. state of affairs there. The staff the to Aubsequently dragged have called the ends of justice-accused, merely said that he was

bracken, where the murderer had

The bowling tonours went to W.is inadequate, the equipment un- at any rate, to place an impedi- ment in the way of the official not guilty.

"I have renson to believe, your fention from her clothing. But player, who was not put on untiltiquated. The Committee consider torn out all likely marks of identi- Brace, the Kowloon Cricket club satisfactory, and the buildings an- police?

are being Worships, that the prisoner's name She was a young woman of is not Atkins, and that he is he had overlooked the handbag in late in the innings. He captured that human lives

endangered without excuse type practically unknown to me masquerading in. the character of which was found a shorthand diary five wickets for 23 runs in seven that the Hospital is, to speak plain- ly, a scandal and a disgrace to the a type, indeed, with which 1 should have said (a month before)a chauffeur, but our inquiries are with her name and, address.

not complete."

Colony.

Whereupon the police-super-

She has been identified as Miss Constance Oliver.of Batterseaithe,- since 7 p.m. on Sunday.

overs.

The keenness in the field is shown by the fact that with the Service batsmen were caught.

and

have been positive that it would, intendent asked for a week's re- a typist, who had been missing exception of Bridgland, all the quest contained in Dr. Hoops'

mund, and Atkins was marched off to Westport again.

The local players went to the wickets at about 12.30 and when stumps were drawn they had lost two wickets for 28 runs.

I had not an atom of aynputhy I did not understand it; I should. bo utterly at a loss to understand

Motor-tracks found on the turf a middle-aged lawyer of rather

During the day I picked up the lead to the suspicion that the conventional and formal ideas bits of evidence on which the motorist concerned had pointed such as I was.

They out to her the park which has, been But here was assisting her, to charge had been built. dodge the police, and planning in were undoubtedly suggestive. It closed to vehicular traffic after 6 my mind a great many other appeared that when Rossiter and p.m. although cats can be left things which would have annoyed his man, on the previous day, Had there on application. Pedestrians the police still more if they could made their investigations at Mera-are able to enter at any time.

The doctor is of opinion that have had an inkling of my mentalfield Tower, they turned Atkins's processen. And doing it all with bedroom upside down and inside death had occurred about thirty Lieut. Garrett, e Dale, b Wales.. aut. Almost everything they six hours before the discovery. As I had suggested to Mrs. found was quite consistent with

One of 13 Children. the character of #11 innocent

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United Services.

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They refuse to agree to the re- letter, for they consider it would reduce the Committee to im- potence..

The programme at the World The full morning's scores fol. Theatre to-morrow Includes the complete official record of the fight between Jack Sharkey" and Jack Dempsey which led to the latter meeting Genie Tunney for 88 the world's heavyweight cham- Besides showing the 23pionship.

afight round by round, the picture ?shows in slow motion the clip Sharkey gave Dempsey under the jaw after the gong had rung for the end of the seventh round.

"Licut. Dynes, ċ Pearce, b Brace

Surg, Com. Hull, e and b Goodwin Capt. Graham, e fioodwin. b Brace Briscoe, she could not expect me chauffeur-but not quite every Miss Oliver, it is learnt is one Capt. Bridgland, b.w., Brace ... to close my intelligence as well a thing. "In a drawer of the dress- my eyes and lips, I would not

key.... who have been employed in the take a single glance at her as she ing-table they came upon two long of a family of thirteen children Mid. Merriman, e Dobbie, b Hun

They stood on the cliff. I would cer-strips of printed paper. tainly not say a word to anybody were "proofs" of a chapter of a same firm in the City for seven Capt. Morris, e Hayward, b Brace She had arranged to meat bid. Begg, Wales, b Brace .... Capt. Erskine, e. Pearce,, b Reed about what had happened that book, apparently a technical book, years. uvening.

But I could not help containing large numbers of alge- male friend on Sunday evening. Lieut. Melsome, not out drawing my own conclusions and braical tables and other mysteries. but he says that she did not arrive. Pay. Cam. Elstoh, & Dale, b Reed

An attempt to set fire to her Possibly not much notice would making my own inferences. They were not clear, but they were have been taken of the document,body had failed. A portion of her as it was rather crammed and right leg and het clothing' were clearing.

soiled, but for three marks upon burned. The marks found on her it. They were:

I walked home, and, within five 'minutes of my artival was in bed

speculating on the reuptian the! Scotland Yard men had experi! enced at Higheli Farm.

arms suggested that she had been

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A rabber stamp mark-held tightly. The tracks on the "First Proof."

turf are those of either a small (2) A rubber stamp mark motor-car or a motor-cycle com- Dobbie

Reed "bination. "Please retorn before

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and written in the blank The police have circulated a

Dale Wales

Total

Bowling Analysis.

14

145

O. M. R. W. $ 1.10.

162 12

8 - 26 1 7 2 28 1 6 1 17 -1. 7 2 23 5" Interport "Possibles".

I learnt of it afterwards. They woke the house without ceremony,

space the words "August 31,"description of one Sidney Barnard Goodwin confident that their victim would

A manuscript note at the Goulter, a motor mechanic, aged Hankey simply tumble into their hands.

bottom of the second strip: twenty-five, whom they are anxious Brace But I also learnt that the appoint-

"I think this is all right. to trace. He has been missing ed victim was not Mrs. Briscoe.

buy check formula 53." from his house in Kingston since They never even suspected the

Rossiter confessed that he did Saturday, Pus- existence of Mrs. Briscoe. sibly she might have remained not know what to make of this at where she was without danger. he moment, but it confirmed the Rossiter, the leading man and aopinion he had formed from other detective of Some quality, took his circumstances that Atkins was no

chauffeur. assistant and four plain-clothes professional men from Westport, in a big car, point which made him certain that posted the four so that nobody he had got hold of a master clue could get out of the place without was the date on the rubber stamp. being seen, and then demanded Atkins might deny until Dooms

day that he had any connexión admission.

The farm people, albeit a little with this strange document; but it awed by Rossiter, were as good could belong to nobody else. as their word. They began at Atkins had occupied the room on once on the story of their visitor's the second floor of Meralleld House departure for London in the morn-since the beginning of July, and

The

A. W. Hayward, played on, b Miss Oliver's relations state

Garrett that Goulter, when informed by W. Brace, not out..... Constance's sister that she was A. W. Ramsay, b Melsome missing replied: "My God! Lieut. Hankey, not out must go and see her mother." He did not, however, go. He dis- appeared recently. He had taken Constance out promising her a motor-ride.

Hongkong theatre-goers will fearn with interest and pleasure that Mr. Charles Chamier's Our Cabaret -Company, which had such

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Total (for 2 wkts.).

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T. E Pearce. Capt. Dobble, Lieut. Dale, F. Goodwin, C. D. Wales, E. B. Reed and Lieut. Hunt to bat..

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ing. Their anxiety to get it nobody else had been in it except occessful eenson at the Star son letter-perfect was, perhaps, an the housemaids.

Upon this Rossiter formed his excellent thing, for Rossiter was. keen enough to see at once that theory, and it was ingenious and the yarn had been invented. Hut plausible.

According to him there was a instead. of turning his attention tol the search for Mrs. Briscoe, it con-conspiracy in which Lady Mera firmed him: in the theory with field and Major Overbury were in volved, with Atkins as an assist which he had started. In order

engagement nt. Atkins's to put him off the scent, these

Merafela rustic folks hail concocted A thin tale about a woman who lived only ringered by the lady, and probids on the man who killed Mora-Rifles). in their imagination. He brushably the visit

That business was to find Major Overbury! *

at

Tower had been

Major Overbury as well. For some reason or other

snag somewhere in

field.

But his activity was a challenge to me. If I was to discover all that was necessary in order to ful- fil my tacit promise to Lady Mera- field without revealing things she wanted hidden, I should have to bo

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Perhaps it was not quite fair for me to take the advantage I did of Rossiter's natural pride in his

London, Oct. 26. The old coutraversy which held n-hoop about it that the question prminence during the laat visit of fairness did not trouble my cop of the Australians to England science. He made no difficulty when lobby was appointed. captain about showing, me the printed of the English Test side in the document that had been found in afanchester match, after A. W.

Hibernians He could make Carr had been taken ill and was Atkins's room.

Partick nothing of it himself, except that unable to play, is rovived by the that in all, pro-

St. Mirren Y it betrayed Alking's chauffeuring announcement for the masquerade it undoubtedly bability Herbert Sutcliffe will was. He would let Scotland Yard

Name Yorkshire county captain the

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ed Mrs. Brisene and her doings, the guns had gone off before they one side, and came with threats. and blusterings to the real bus were meant to, or the plan had miscarried in some way, for three ness of his visit.

clever people like these could never have intended to leave so They had Major-Overbury con many traces for an intelligent de-quick, cealed somewhere on the premises. ective to pick up. But there was They had committed a frightfulenerally a crime by harbouring him, but ir every plot, or the detectivo pro- astuteness. But he was so cock

far more they produced him at once it might fession would be a go easier with them-alf in the arduous business than it was..

Having got a working, theory, usual vein.

Of course, as the farm people Rossiter set about realising it in

most workmanlike

nanner. had never, to their knowledge. seen Major Overbury, and he was Before Atkins got back from his certainly not concealed on the notor-ride he had rushed cut Mrs. premises, they were unable to pry Pansonby-Fernside and confronted duce him, and Rossiter was unable her with the rest of the servants When did she sec.Alkins' on the to find as much as a nail-paring of him. The expedition had come night of the erim? He appar find out all about that, and it eleven next season. In the con-

ir: the would not take them long to un-troversy to which the announce to grief, and shortly after one in fed almost immediately the morning the big car reared group of servants which gathered mask Mr. Atkins. He proposed to ment has given rise Lord Hawke, past my house on the way back hout Lady Mernfield and Major post it to the Yard at once and who was a strong critic of the Overbury. She could not say flot them search for its origin. action of the English selectors in to Westport.·

I reached my office, after the giving Hobbs the captaincy of the Being at breakfast just after whether he came down from the eight o'clock, I was called to the upper storey with Mason and the court had risen, in a mood of ex-English side, now caustically re- citement, torn between two pos marks that possibly Sutcliffe con- telephone. The police had abotman. She did not observe.

But what she did observe, whensible procedures.

templates turning amateur. prisoner who must be charged that

If I chased the clue given to me morning. Would I get two magis-pressed on the subject by Rosal-

Yorkshire next season will be

-Strike out the teams which you trates to sit at the Merafield Armster, was that Atkins was in his full by the conversation of Atkins and

chauffeur's rig, not in deshabille Mrs. Briscoe, I must leave the clue without the services of three think will lose, but make no marke at eleven o'clock?

of the manuscript. And, on the players who have given them in respect of matches which you "Who is the prisoner?" I asked. like the rest of them."

a large think will be drawn. It was Grainger who spoke. That was enough for Rossiter. other hand, if I chased the clue of valued assistance for

Oldroyd,

All claims must reach this office. "Oh, our friends from the Yard, And as for me, I recalled that the manuscript, I really feared number of years, for

Waddington are Mr. Franks, have made up their he was in full chauffeur rig whch what might happen to. Mra. Dolphin and minds to charge Atkins after all, he arrived with the car at Rose-Briscoe. As it turned out, I need retiring. Oldroyd, who will be not later than Wednesday follow- No prize will be Say they've discovered something. bank. He had looked very spick-not have feared for that young 40 next season, first began to ing the date on which the matches

woman was quite capable of look assist Yorkshire in 1910, and since are played.

Denton I don't know. what-some tale of and-span, and nut at all like a man

retired the awarded for which a claim has not cock and bull, I expect. The recently disturbed, rudely in his ing after herself, and not even David

Dewsbury man has filled his been made, d Rossiter had any terrors for her. charge is of being accessory before sleep.

Before sending in your coupons, and after the fact of Sir Charles More significant than that, I re- I decided upon the clue of the place with much distinction. He figures membered what Lady Merafield document. That had to be fol- has compiled 17 three

copy the list of your forecasts/ Merafield's murder."

So Atkins was really laid by the had told me that as she went lowed at once if I was to get at innings for Yorkshire, and was Compare this later with the pub- heels, and Mrs. Briscoe would down the stairs ahe heurd Over-it before Scotland Yard. I tole-third in the county batting aver have to work out her problem bury talking, or thought she did, phoned to my wife that I was ages last season. Dolphin is 41lished results of the matches and and Waddington If you find that you have eight or alone!

as if speaking to himself. I re-called suddenly to London, and years of age I got the two magistrates, and flected that if the keen and nirable that she was not to expect me only 34. Their retirement will more correct send in a claim for

tele make room, at long last, for the the prize. M the court held an almost formal Rossiter had posached half the back until she received a

The best train available several promising young players Bitting. Atkins was brought in fght I had on what happened at gram. between two policemen. He gave Morafield Tower on August 19, he left at two o'clock, which gave me who have not been able to get

their places in the county team me a glance and a half-hint of a would not be long in laying his an hour had a-half.

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