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MEN FIGHT IN DRAWING ROOM.

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MYSTERY OF WIFE'S DEATH SOLVED.

London, Oct. 8.

TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1931.

LONE YACHTSMAN | SMUGGLING DRUGS

RIDDLE

FROM ORIENT.

FROM QUEBEC IN 6-TON BOAT.

"ISLAND OF DREAMS” AT. MILAN.

Swansea, Sept. 27.

Rome, Oct. 1. The Italian polico have dis- For five days no news has been A husband's fight with another

an important clearing

A man in the presence of the wife, heard of the five-ton motor yacht covered

at Milan. who died from a stroke brought on Lauffer, which, with only one man house for drugs

understood, was doctor and a well-known lawyer by excitement, was a dramatic in on board. It is

doctor cident described at a Brighton In-making for Swansea from Quebec. I have been arrested. The

She was last spoken to on kept a chemist's shop, which is quest pesterday.

Wednesday morning, 84 miles to said to have been used us a dis- when tributing centre. The shop bas south-went "of the Fastnet, the steamer San Toredoro, bound seen closed, and so have six other

chemists' shops in the city. to a Mexican port, sighted her.

The woman, Mra. Eame Mar- Dennis, aged 99, of St. Georza's-road, Rrighton, was the wife of Captain Arthur E. Dennis and died in a Hove nursing home.

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The jury returned verdict of death from natural causen.

The public gallery was alled with fashionably dressed women.

Mra, Emma Crouch, of Warwick- street. Worthing, said that in the first week of September her sister (Mrs. Dennis) made some re- marks about her husband having neglected her.

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Mr. J. Wills, who is believed to

From papers seized in their be the sale occupant of the Leuffer, homes and confessions mudo by then reported that he was short of the rest of the gang, mostly young provisions. Foodstuffs were put on

mon and women of smart appear- board and the coura

set for Swansen, a distance at that anco, it seems that a consignment of drugs, weighing several kilo- time of about 240 miles.

grammes, was brought into Italy The Leuffer was then under ani). Since then nothing has been heardrum Constantinople by highly-

paid smuggiera. - of her.

Coastguards from Humbles

A cook on the Paris train do "I thought." antd Mrs. Crouch. Head down the Welsh cons have luxo has been arrested. It is "there was some other man, a Cap-have been keeping a sharp look-alleged that he carried the drugs dkin Courroux. In love with my ant. but visibility has been bnd, in his kitchen, which was not nd there has been a continuous searched by Customs officers at the sister."

but slight head wind, which must various frontiers.

relied.

Blows in Drawing Room.

On Wednesday (Sept. 28) she have meant httle pregrens if the

A club, called the "Island of went to Bloomsbury Cottage, Mrs. yaucht is depending solely on her Dennis's home, and saw her arrive staff. Fortunately the sea through- Dreama." has also been raided, Captain the past week has been very but the elderly woman who kept it with Captain Courroux.

8 escaped. It is in the Mon- Dennis was outside the house and calm.

It is considered possible that Mr. forte residential district, and was he and Captain Courroux aparWilla may have put in at some the Mecca of fashionable drug and Heroin, hashish, "Mrs. Dennis Came into the quiet spot on the Welsh or Irish addicts.

cocaine were found there in targe house and phoned for the police. coast.

be- The Leuffer left Quebee, accordquantities. These drugs are When the police arrived Capt.

ng examined by police analysts. Dennis and Capt. Courroux were ing to the wireless sent out by the still fighting. They came into the San Teredoro, on July 26 last.

It appears that the bulk of the drawing-room nad I saw them

narcotics found their way to Paria fighting."

yer has confessed that he ar.

Mra, Crouch said her sister could not account for the Injury. and the United States. The law- agreed to po back with her to It was impossible so far as he wasganised the business part of the Worthing, but later she found concerned, Mrs. Dennis in bed and semi-con- scious.

According to the evidence of traffic and drew up contracts with doctors, death was due to cerebral the Constantinople firms which haemorrhage, due to exellement supplied the goods. Ho said it it could not have been caused by was profitable, but much of their profit went in bribes and distribut- external violence.

Used their Fists, She remained the night with her Hlater, and next morning noticed

The coroner described the fighting expenses, little bruises on her arm and lex

A sharp watch is being kept on and that one eye was alightly dis-as "unfortunate and unseemly."

but sakl it was certain Dennia did the eastern frontier and als coloured

Swles frontier stations.

The Caroner: Did you see your not hit his wife. sister struck during the fighting? ---No, and she did not complain of having been struck.

Replying to Mr. R. E. Seaton, who appeared for trustees of Mrs. Dennis's mother, Mrs. Crouch said the men did not use weapons. They fought with fists.

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The Coroner:, Captain Dennis,

wrongly. หมิง rightly r jealous of Mrs. Dennis?—Yes,

Smacked His Face.

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William Henry Crouch told roroner that he saw Mrs. Dennis smack her husband's fare. Cap- tain Dennis pushed his wife into a chair three times.

P. C. Maddex, who was called to: the house, said he found Capt.) Dennis and Capt. Courroux strug- gling on the courk, grasping each | other by the neck.

Captain Courroux said that hel had been a paying guest with Can- tain Dennis and was on friendly terms with him and his wife.

On the night of the struggle Den- nis came up and struck at him when he drove up and accused him of having relations with Mrs. Den-1 nis. They closed and struggled.

"Mrs. Dennis and I have beent like brother and sister," said Capt. Courroux. "I deny that there has been any carrying on between us."

"She Dived In."

Captain Dennis said he thought his wife joined in the struggles he had with Captain Courroux. "I had Courroux on the sofa and was rising him pummelling and she sort of dived in," he said.

Later, when his wife made a movement as if to go, he pushed her on the bed and in doing so he tore her dress,

Captain Dennis added that he knew his wife underwent an opern- tion for a fractured skull, but he

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