Evening star., 1924-08-10
CORPSE IS BOILED
TO HIDE MURDER
Britain Metes Speedy JUS
tice to Man Accused of
Staying Woman.

LONDON, August 9.-The Elective
simplicity of English court procedure
in criminal trials has been repeated
ly commented on by visiting lawyers
and jurists from America, not a few
of whom have used it as a text for
disparaging criticism of their own
more tortuous and cumbersome
methods
Similar adverse comment has been
stirred among the British public by
the reports received from Chicago
concerning proceedings in the Franks
case, which are being followed here
with unparalleled interest because of
the seemingly. monstrous depravity
of the youthful culprits, Leopold and
Loeb.
Discussion is general and the Daily
Mail in a recent editorial found es-
pecially deplorable 1.-The mobilization Of
a procession of psychoanalysts en-
aeaVoring to save the accused from
facing jury and to enable them to
escape the proper penalty on the con-
Nenient plea of in anity. The danger
to the public in this dubious science
here is clearly shown. Certainly the
true interests of justice will not al
low the trial by jury to be elbowed
aside"
Speedy Justice Demonstrated.
1t so happened. though the Daily
Mail drew no comparison between
the two cases, that less than a fort
night before this editorial was pub
llshed. British judge and jury, sit
ting in the Sussex Assizes in the old
town of Lewes, had given note
worthy illustration of the expeditions
manner in which even a sensational
murder trial may be conducted when
legal technicalities are relegated to a
subordinate position.
1t took them less than full days
to find Patrick Henry Mahon guilty
of the willful murder of his in
amorata, Miss Emily Beilby Kaye. and
consign hin to a death cell under
sentence to be hanged. This despite
the illness of a juror which made it
necessary to impanel a new jury and
start afresh after more than a dozen
Crown witnesses had been heard and
crOSS-eXamined.
The case is believed to be one of
the most melodramatic and grewsome
on record in any country. Mahon, a
prosperous salesman and married
man, had contracted an intimacy with
Miss Kaye. Saturday, April .l2, they
had gone to Officers House. an iso-
lated bungalow in a seaside colony
near Pevensey. on the shore of the
Channel. While there together. sup
posedly on the night of Tuesday,
and violent death. That same night
Mahon telegraphed to Miss Ethel
Primrose Duncan. young woman of
good family connections with whom
he had recently scraped acquaintance,
engaging her to dine with him
Wednesday evening in London.
Week Ends In Death Cottage.
agreed, that Miss Duncan pass her
Easter week end with him at the
Pevensey bungalow She went down
on Good Friday morning, and stayed
there with him, unconscious that the
body of her immediate predecessor in
his interest was stuffed into trunk
in one of the bedrooms, until the
next Monday afternoon, when they
3ourneyed up to town together. dined
and attended theater before part
ing.
Almost two weeks elapsed before
suspicion was aroused. Late in April
a Eloakroom attendant at Watefloo
station, London, became inquiSitive
about the contents of a Gladstone
bag which had been checked there.
He notified Scotland Yard. The bag
was examined, and when, on May 2,
Nahon called for it he was detained
and taken to Scotland Yard, where,
after close questioning, he that same
night made what purported to be
full statement of the truth.
Miss Kaye, he told the officers. had
been insiStent that he abandon his
wife and children and his job and go
out to South Africa with her to begin
life anew. His reluctance to do this
eliminated that Tuesday night in the
living room of the bungalow when
khe flung a small axe at him. The
missile grazed his shoulder. crashing
into a door, and the woman. who was
big-bodied, strong and athletic, fol-
lowed up her assault by rushing at
him. They clinched and wrestled. he
said. till their struggling bodies were
overthrow by chair beside the
hearth. In falling, he declared. Miss
Kaye struck her head on an iron coal
scuttle, receiving a mortal injury.
When he came to his dazed senses,
he went on, he was panicstricken.
Instead of notifying the authorities
of the mishap, he first of all thought
of hiding the body till he could dis
pose of it, Then, unable to face the
haunted solitude Of the bungalow, he
had conceived the idea of having Miss
Duncan there for the week end.
Victims Body Dismembered.
After her departure, he told the
police authorities, he had set about
the final disposition of Miss Hayes
body, which he first of all dismem
bered and cut up, using butchers
knife and a kitchen meat saw. The
head and one of the legs he burned
in an open crate. Other portions OF
the flesh he cut into convenient
pieces and boiled, preparatory to car
ryiItg them away in his Gladstone
bag ant disposing of them piecemeal.
Pending this removal, he kept them
In Miss Haye's locked trunk and hat
box. which Miss Duncan had seen
standing in an unoccupied bedroom.
hc OF n mt +
ten out and signed he was hurried to
Pevensey by motor and the bungalow
was searched. womans torso, sepa-
rated into several pieces. and the in
ternal organs belonging to it were
found in. the trunk, and number of
pieces of boiled human flesh were in
the hatbox. All about the place
saucepans and other cooking utensils
tempt to stay decomposition. When
this artifice failed, he had drenched
the accusing flesh and the blood
crusted fabrics with disinfectant.
Early in June the Hailsham magis-
trates, after protracted hearings,
bound Mahon over for trial on a
charge of willful murder. About the
same time the coroner's jury, COM
pleting it's inquest, laid a similar ac-
cusation against the prisoner. and he
was jailed in Lewes to await his
trial at the Sussex Assizes in July.
Pleads Self-Defense.
When formally arraigned at Hail
sham he had pleaded not guilty, but
reserved his defense for his trial.
Since, however, he had declared in
his signed statement, and repeatedly
told the police and other inquisitors
that the tragic encounter started when
Miss Kaye threw the AK and that he
had only grappled and wrestled with
her to defend himself, it was gener-
ally supposed his answer to the CAPT
tai charge would be a claim that she