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RIDDLE OF DEAD GIRL UNSOLVED.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1930.

THRILLING MOTOR MANY BURGLARIES

DRAMA.

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ITALIAN FACES DEATH TO SCOTLAND YARD PERTURBED

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Two famous Italian motor-car Scotland Yard is perturbed All along the. Riviera societyReserve Fund racers had a thrilling escape from the epidemic of burglaries and gossip these days is of the Count

from suburbs of London. course, near Belfast.

death on the Ulster Grand Prix housebreaking now being reported and Countess de Millaut, who for

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the past four years have been In the first morning's practice In spite of the watchfulness of for the race one man saved the the local uniformed police and the among the leading sccial figures on life of the other by a splendid act patrols, petty housebreaking has the coast. of courage, unprecedented in the activities of the Flying Squad

The Count and his beautiful wife increased at a season when history of motor racing.

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saw

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The girl was taken ill after

she said, Thousands of children drinking tea, which. "tasted

bitter."

died in young men and girls. She hospital. At a previous hearing of weed- killer which was kept in a shed and said he found it with the tin

. Mr. Budd spoke of a tin

cap off and the cork loose.

episode.

the

scale; now they are facing charges

A Magnificent Villa. When the couple first came to

1

In the ordinary way, the peak of fraud and misappropriation of

comes funds. The accident followed two of the burglary season" other narrow escapes of noted between December and January, when the nights are long. In the British drivers.

summer the criminal has only as Twenty minutes from the close few hours of darkness in which The jury returned a verdict of practice Signor G. Ramponi, to operate. But in the last few the Riviera they established them- arsenical on his O. M. Italian car of rough- weeks he has been disquictingly themselves⠀⠀in magnificent. that death was due to poisoning, adding that it had notly 19 horse power with a maxi-busy, even to the extent of work Venetian villa on the Boulevard de been proved how it nd-mum speed of 105 miles an hour,ing by day. ministered.

appeared

L'Imperatrice de Russie at Nice. slightly dissatisfied

There is a technical difference This residence, known as the Villa In his summing up the coroner with the machine's behaviour,

towards the Signor E. Fronteras, who owns between housebreaking and bur-Vigier, was famous the car, suggested that they glary. An offence committed be end of last century as the home of should travel a lap of the 14 miles tween 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. is house Count Vigier and his wife, who en- course together, he acting as Ram-breaking, between p.m. and Gtertained most of the Royal visitors pont's mechanic..

a.m. it is called burglary.

to the Riviera.

said:

was

All the roads on the course had been treated with granite. chip

This inquiry has been lengthen ed by two matters.

"The first is that if the facts that came to

the knowledge. of Dr. Daly had been reported to the police on July 7, as I think it was his duty to report them, this in-rings.

have been more quiry might satisfactorily gone Into.

"When I asked him why he did not do so, Dr. Daly said because it was confidential. There could be no confidence about it.

"Unfortunate."

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Here the "Count and Countess de Millaut" ran a brilliant saloon. the garden they had an open air theatre built, and produced plays CALCUTTA Ramponi cornered, the bend ut

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to the left, but Ramponi, in a draw their blinds, lock all windows marvellous way, corrected the and doors and thus advertise the Then the Count purchased skid, only for a right-hand skid to fact that their homes are un-large piece of land between Nice develop, taking the car into the tenanted.

and Monte Carlo, and announced The second fact, is this. It is bank at almost 90 miles an hour.

that he was going to build the finest not for me to criticise the police,

Tempting the Burglar.

casino on the coast. The building and I am not going to do so but

"Precautions" literally was begun, but the work stopped 1 do say I think it was a little unfortunate, at all events. that

the car, in a fish realised the who do their "scouting"

Fronteras, gripping the side of invite the attentions of burglara; several seasons ago, and from that Countess' time the "Count and during some real attempt was not made to

inevitable and appeared obtain a statement from the girlberately to jerk himself off the

de-the day and their raiding by night were seen less and less in society. "She lived for about 12 days mechanic's seat, ready to jump maker to leave the house with its

It is much safer for the holiday

The Creditors. after being brought to the hospital out, when he just as deliberately normal appearance. To pull down

Several people who furnished its received for one year or shorter periods Capital, Surplus and, as far as I know, no state-

dropped into the seat again.

funds wanted to know when they ment was taken from her, nor was

the blinds is to invite trouble.

were going to see their money any effort made to obtain one.

Handing the key to a neighbour again, and as they have not re "These two matters have left

they the case in a very difficult position.

who can be relied upon to open the ceived satisfactory replies, windows in the morning and close have begun legal proceedings. One "The crux of the whole matter

them in the evening is another creditor. it is alleged, has a che was how the weed. killer got into

At the moment that the car useful ruse to bluff the burglars, que for 110,000 francs which the the cup.

struck the bank it "catapulted" while a word to the police that bank will not look all. "It is possible the girl might 15 feet into the air over the bank, the house is being left empty will have thought she was in trouble turned aver and over in its des-result in the constable on the beat and put polson in the cup, not cent, with the two men each grip-keeping a "special eye" on it... necessarily to kill herself but to doping a side of the car, their other

One suburban arms interlocked and their free away with what she thought was trouble.

"But there is not sufficient evidence to show that the girl ad-

ministered poison to herself, al- though that would supply a motive. "Nor is there any one person against whom a verdict could be returned. On the evidence. 1 think

will find you

open verdict..

He stated that the verdict left the case open for further inquiries by the police if they thought f

Traces of Poison.

an

Dr. Herbert L. Cronk, the Hanp-

He caught hold of Ramponi's head and shoulders and forced him down into the car below the level of the bodywork.

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When old Riviera residents' search their memories, they recall a M. Millaut, who before the war held a householder. past in one of the Nice casinos. hands gripping a part of the steer-knowing something of the wiles in 1920. he returned to Nice as M. of the holiday burglar and the de Millaut a professor of music, ing-wheel.

danger of the scouting pedlar, left and after another absence, he canke Calcutta The car and men landed in the tablecloth laid in the dining back as a count. deep ditch full of water, with the room apparently all ready for a car wheels uppermost, the engine meal! The ruse was effective, for) still vinning and the men trapped though other houses in the roud underneath.

were raided this house was left) In a few seconds a squad of severely alone. Belfast first-aid men, with two A large number of holiday bur- nurses, scrambled down the bank,plaries are committed by men who and men and girls pulled the car act on the information of pseudo- off the imprisoned drivers,

Nearly Drowned,

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during the earlier proceedings thated," said a medical eye-witness.

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to make an analysis. He did not B detect any arsenie

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he specimen of vomit, with a request

iz It. In organs which he examined he | found "decidedly more arsenic than

the body normally contains."

The Coroner: Supposing a per- son had drunk a cup of tea with some of the weed-killer in it, is that what you would expect to find? The findings would tally with

that.

A cup was then handed to the doctor, who said that there was a trace of weed-killer on the bottom of it,

"You would not notice it at all." (he said, "but for the colour. There are about six drops there- very nearly a fatal dose."

"Criminal Ideas.”

were grot out. Fronteras un-

questionably saved Ramponi's life through his superb coolness and courage."

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is discovered.

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In the two early narrow es-mon sense.

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Nearly £800,000 worth of pro Electric Bond & Share

Fastman Kolak ted Liverpool motor-cyclist and

perty is stolen yearly in London, Electr car racer and Kaye Don figured, and only a quarter of It is recover-General

General Motors Horsman's Triumph over-turned almost at the same spot as that

General Railway Signal. ed.

Gold Bust Contrary, to general belief, the Goodyear of Ramponi's car. The cause is u

Tire & Rubber average crook is not clever in Granby Consolidated mystery. Horsman and his mec-

planning and carrying out bur-Intoruational Cement hanie were only slightly cut.

Kaye Don, on an Italian Alfa, glaries. Outside the realms of International Nickel

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Orpheum ence, though many of the criminal ndio double bend at Comber in sight of classes are cunning to a degree.

Sears Roebuck a crowd of towns people. The.

Simmons Company It is these part-timers-the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey | car swung round with a 130 miles

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Dr. Isane Gordon, medical officer an hour Mercedes rushing up to casual criminals who are res nt the Royal Hants County him.

ponsible for the present epidemic, Hospital, said that he diagnosed Luckily Don's car stopped with and drastic steps are being taken toxemia as the cause of the girl'sample room for the Mercedes to by the Flying Squad day and night illness.

clear.

to round them up.

"I use the word toxemia," he said, “because poisoning brings to

Ythe mind criminal ideas.

The doctor added that in his opinion the girl was

certain condition.

not in

♫

He thought that death was due

to arsenical poisoning.

George Aldwell, a butcher em- ployed by Mr. Budd, said that he had been out with the girl on two occasions.

Aldwell agreed that he made a statement to the police in which he said that he had never been out with Elsie Duckett, and had never

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The Coroner: Why did you any something which was untrue?

Aldwell: I did not remember at the time. I thought of it after- wards.

The Coroner (reading from Aldwell's statement to the police): "One night in my lodgings I heard Elsie say that if ever she got into trouble she would do away with herself.

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