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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1986.

STARR FAITHFULL CRIME REOPENED

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Sailor Grilled' About Murder Of Society Beauty In 1931 WARM & FREE

This elephant, which belongs to the Maharaja of Mysore, is saluting its master on his return

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King's Marriage His Private Affair,

Erasmus' Counsel 4 Centuries Ago

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private matter of their own. It is her birth, who will make a good wife | A King's marriage is his own called the greatest of human affairs, for the Rood prince." private malter, and whoever will so that we too often have a recur- Erasmus added that a good prince

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wife Good

is rence.

of what happened to the "does not consider his own affairs honourable-

whatever her Greeks and the Trojans because of prosperous unless he looks out for enough birth. This counsel, along with Helen.

the welfare of the state,” Warning much cise pertinent to 1930, was "But if you please to make that unwise alliances with foreign written four centuries ago by the choice becoming a prince, your wife princesses often produced wors, he to his should be selected from all women added: great humanist, Erasmus, pupli, the future Emperor Charles V for her integrity, modesty and wis- of Spain. It is contained in Eras- dom, and one who would be an

"Although I am aware that this custom is too long accepted for one

BETRAYED BY UNDERWORLD AND TATTOOED HAND

From C. V. R. THOMPSON,

New York, Dec. 1.

A SLANT-EYED sailor with the words "Hard

Luck”, tattooed across his knuckles was ar- rested at Baltimore to-day for questions concerning three murders at seà, including that of beautiful socialite Starr Faithfull, whose battered, half- clothed body was washed ashore, at Long Island five years ago.

One night in June 1931 Starr Faithfull attended a play in the liner Mauretania. She was never seen again. A letter was discovered later which indicated suicide be- cause of the collapse of a love affair, but the final belief was that she had been murdered,

The sailor arrested to-day is Gail Gilmore, aged 36. He was discovered in a waterfront board- ing-house by detectives who had trailed him for two months as a suspect in the killing of yachts- William Mortiz, whose bullet-torn and stabbed body was

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found floating in New York Har- bour last August.

The détectives grilled their pri soner relentlessly while they brought him by train to New York.

They asked him about his where- about at the time of the Starr Faithfull murder and also the murder of Benjamin Collings. eccentric Inventor and mechanical engineer

Collings was seized by harbour pirates who boarded his cabin cruiser and

When attacked him.

Mrs. Collings want to her husband's nid the plrates had

disappeared. The inventor's body, shot, stabbed and bound, was washed up on Long Island shore a week later.)

BLOODSTAINS IN SLOOP

Collings's murder was just three

Police believo Starr Faithfull was

mus' famous book, "The Education obedient wife to a good prince and to hope to be able to uproot It, yet 1 CUNARD-WHITE STAR /weeks after the Starr Faithfull crime:

of a Christian Prince," now re- would bear him children worthy thought it best to give my advice In

directors are, it is under-killed aboard some craft and thrown

published in a first complete Eng- both of their parents and the state, case things stwuld turn out beyond stood, negotiating with the lish translation by Columbia Univer- She is honourable enough, whatever, my hopes,"

sity Press. The translation, with an introduction, in by Lester K, Born,

The work was for centuries a textbook for the education of Euro- pean rulera, and Erusmus himself sent

much-married copy to the Henry the Eighth of England, His advice to Prince Charles on picking a bride was this:

"For my part,. I should think that It would be by far most beneficial to the state if the marriage alliances of princes were confined within the limits of their own Kingdoms or, I they had to go beyond their boun- darlen, with only their nearest neighbours, and then only those who warrant faithful friendship. But, they say, it is not right for the daughter of a king to marry anyone except a king or a king's son. Those are merely the-fancies of individuals

YOUNG WIDOW MURDERED IN..

RIVIERA EXPRESS

Cannes, Doc. 1.

HANDS and foot chained, her face partly covered with a chloro- form gag, a strikingly beautiful brunette was found strangled on the seat of a first-class carriago of the Strasbourg-Ventimiglia express as it approached Monte Carlo this morning,

She was identified as Mme. Suzanne Carola, aged 35, a widow, to raise their own kin to as high a manageress of the famous "Marquise de Sevigne" luxury sweet position as they can, and the prince shops branch establishment at Cannes. Under her management should have no synipathy with them the shop became the tea-time social centre of the town, especially

"The marriage of princes is really for British visitors..

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Mme. Garola appears to have been the victim of train thieves. Her three suitenses were opened,- valuable rings which she always wore were gone, only a few.coins were in her handbag. The com- partment showed signs of a violent struggle.

PRESENTIMENT OF EVIL

When she boarded the express at (Lyons last night ofter visiting a sister (she noticed two suspicious-looking men on the platform. She told her brother-in-low:

"I wish I had not to leave to- night. I would not like to travel In the company of such men. Find 'me an empty comparinient where I can sleep in peace."

She was seen in the corridor when the train stopped at Marseilles. An hour later the guard noticed her lying on the seat, apparently-asleep. When the train approached Monte Carlo he decided to awaken her, but discover- ed that she was dead."

GUARD'S STORY

He told the polico that once when he went to waken the woman an elderly man in the corridor said: "Leave her alone, she's asleep."

Mme. Jean Michel, mother of the murdered woman. sald

to-night that with her grandson she went to meet the train this morning. When her daughter did not appear she thought she had missed the train.

"My daughter had no enemico," she' said, "and there can be no question

of a drama of passion."

SETTLER

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Government for money aid in their £10,000,000 recon- struction programme.

Six express liners of medium size are planned.

The Government, It is thought, may be influenced by the fact that the ships will be of a type which could in war be rapidly converted fast troop-carriers or armed merchant vessels.

to

The promotion of a Bill is pro- posoding Act which empowered the Shipping Act which empowered the at a low Government to advance £5,000,000 rate of interest for the building of the Queen Mary and her sister, slip.

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overboard.

Gilmore was traced by the words "Hard Luck” which lie had tat- tooed across his knuckles during drunken waterfront orgy.

Mrs. Gilmore told detectives that her husband, who hud worked for the dead yachtsman William Mortiz, had gone to Boston by motor-car Just before his employer's body was discovered.

She told them his tattoo marks and directed them to his shing sloop.

Bloodstains were found on some gushions in the sinop, and · the police also discovered several un- opened letters addressed to the Hephew of a New York police In- spector.

A tip from the underworld, told. detectives that Gilmore might be at Baltimore.

FOUR TENDERS

NEW MYSTERY

irundy been received by the con- front looking for a man with "hard -For-weeks-they-went-through-the Tenders for two new ships have bars and cafes of Baltimore's water- pany from four of the principal luck" tattooed on his knuckles. ders are likely to be placed in the were looking for. They followed Gil- British ship-building firms and or- At last they saw the man they New Year.

more to his lodging-house and quiet- ly arrested him.

The ships will be of about 2B,000. tons and similar to the motor liners they will be stearn propelled. Georgie and Britonulc, except that

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£4,000,000,

ARRESTING

LIKENESS

Montreal, Dec. 1. Harold Beament has a talent for drawing.

In his bedroom in Montreal Harold was asleep when he was roused by the opening of his door. A man came in and tip- toed about the room.

As the intruder bent over desk and drawer his flashlamp 1 up his face. Mr. Beament made no effort 10 stop him-no attempt to esil the police. He lay in his bed, eyes focussed on the features that he glimpsed so affully,

As soon as the man left Mr. Bea- ment snatched pencil and paper and sketched him. The harsh lines and delicate shading of the impression were unmistakable.

He handed the sketch to the police. It was circulated among the force. And

The man was recognized, arrest-, ed and sentenced.

He was a burglar with 26 previous convictions.

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Said the detectives: "This may result in revelations regarding the Falthfull cote."

Phey said nothing more. Another mystery was provided by navigator's licence found in a allet the detectives took from Gli- more.

It bore the nome "Carl Shultz, yachisman." Shultz Was reported missing from New York Harbour several months ago.

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