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Brighton, May 1. DETECTIVES of the local C.1.D. have now completed their

quiries into one of the most amazing and macabre mystéries they have ever been called upqn to investigate.

It began with the grim discovery in a cemetery of a human toe wrapped in a stained love-letter and apparently sent by a young man to a girl as a "token of how much I love you.” The detectives concerned in

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the case are considering the pos- "UNUSUAL PUZZLE" BANOROK sibility of a prosecution,

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Their first move was to submit Crossword Competitors Lose CANTIN the grisly object to Dr. L. R. James, pathologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, for examination.

He revented that it was curiously malformed toe which must have been severed from a male foot only a short time before being found.

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Claim for Prizes Two crossword puzzle com-HAIPHONG petitors, who brought an action R against the newspaper in which HARDIN the puzzle appeared, lost their case in London last month.

Mr. Jolin Francis Deverill Lockde, KOB of Grange Park Avenue, Londen, and KOWLOON

the News- London. Mr. Harold George Smith, of Martin KUALA LUMPUR

sued Chronicle (Limited), before Judge F Shewell Cooper at the Mayor's and City of London Court.

Way,

The letter wrapping the was signed "Les," addressed to "My darling Kene," and rend:

"Knowing that you do not love

Mr. Lockle claimed £100, and Mr. me, I am sending you this token Smith £25, which they sald they to show you how much I love should have received as flest and you.

Becond prize-winners respectively, in Judge In his reserved judg- ment to-day, found for the New Chronicle (Ltd.), with costs,

"By the time you receive a last the c Cooper

token you will know how much I really do love you."

The "love token" was contain- ed in a long blue envelope, which was inside an oblong box with a hinged lid.

It was found by a grave digger at the foot of a grave near the wall surrounding the Brighton extra-mural cemetery,

HORRIFIED GIRL

The competition in question was, he said, "an unusual if not unique" crossword puzzle.

Some of the spaces were already led in with letters, a number of the filled clues were of the ordinary type, but in the case of some of them thera was more than one word which might

To each

of letter properly be regarded as the correct ulphabet an arbitrary value was attached. For example, "A" was four and "B" was 16, and so on.

answer.

the

Quickly the detectives came to the conclusion that the package Upon completing the puzzle, the had been delivered to a girl, competitor had to add the numerical value of the letters in each line horl- probably by post, and that, horizontally and vertically, and the grand rified by the contents she flung total of all the lines was his score,

it.

over the wall into cemetery.

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"NOT A LOTTERY" make it clear that this is not a

sald the Judge. lottery." At once the Post Office although it was a lottery, it would be thorities

communicated

my duty to hold the action was not with. Hospitals were asked maintainable. notwithstanding any whether or not an amputated toe wishes of either of the parties." was missing or whether they the could throw any light on mystory.

One of the first declsions the detectives had to make was aste whether the toe had been severed from a living person or from a

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The dispute in the case was con- cerned with only one cluc, No. 3B across, which was "middle of arch," and required two letters for its answer. It did not require much ski to and that, the answer was the central letters of the word "arch

Mr. Lockie and Mr. Smith saitl that had the competition been judged in accordance with the published rules, nothing should be counted for the letters "RC

Once a decision had been reached on this point there be- gan a widespread search for ought to be counted. clues that would lead to the identity of "Rene" and "Les."

Defendants said that these letters

The handwriting on the stain- ed love-letter was subjected to

The value of "I" was 10, and that of "C" 15.

the plaintiffs had added to their scores this 25, Mr. Lockle would have won the first prize of £100 and Mr. minute scrutiny. The envelope Smith the second prize of £25.

in which the toe was delivered The partics in the case differed in was examined and efforts made two of the conditions.

the meaning--which they attached to

to trace ils origin. The oblongi Condition 2 said, "The score is box was measured and police arrived at by adding the values of officers visited various shops the letters which form complete. where such boxes might have words both across and down." Con- dition & stated. Competitors inust been stocked.

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MAN INTERVIEWED Meanwhile other detectives The Judge said he came to the con- were busy making local inclusion tha: "RC" was an abbreviated quiries. A postman was inter-word within the meaning of Condl- viewed. Statements were then

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She declared that she had re- "I suppoer no one would venture to say that RC is a complete word, but ceived love-letters from a man, think Condition 4, which first ex- but that she did not return Itis-cludes certain words, foreign words, love.

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