Show e POLICE OlICE REVEAL a GRUESOME TRAGEDY et S 'S s t r t r A Ai G GIn s In Int I i I II II I II II I I r t N t r ras as I MRS Ins ALIt Ll ALICE E E 1 A D CLCIL Ll I 1 DO Feb Because 3 3 Because er e LO LONDON BONDON Englishman'S home borne Is really his hi castle a House of ot Ghoul here did didI not yield up its horrible secrets to for I more than file H months after the m mis- mis disappearance of ot a woman man centered attention on It It When In finally ally the authorities get In the master roaster of the tho house promptly blew his brains out A fe few minutes later the bO body of the missing woman was as found In a bath tub It had bad been lying there for man many months The actors in this tragedy which outdoes the gruesomeness of ot the I tales of 1 Poe oe and the terrors of the most realistic of ot the Russian dramas drama were ere Cecil Maltby war ar veteran e and Mrs Irs Alice Hilda Middleton wife vite Ife ot of an officer In the British mercantile marine RETURNS CHANGED MAN JUS I Maltby returned from from tho the war a chan ed man Juan Ile He T couldn't sotte down to to business He Ho gambled lIe Ile lIeI I drank He went ent to dance danca halls HI ills wife left him and took her five chil chil- children children I dren with her About a ear ago ho fro fell tell in with Mrs Middleton Her husband h was HIS away onea ona on a long lone cruise She left her home and went to Maltby's house a time she was seen going abott abolt abo with Ith at at- clubs race tracks in hs his motorcycle side cat cal Then she dl's dis- disappeared dis disappeared appeared Maltby app appeared red to be bo worried Ho He barricaded himself In the house and aid told his friends that h has he was as trying to toa a old the bailiffs coming in to collect the taxes he owed As other bills were unpaid the gas the water and the electric light supplies were ere cut cutoff cutoff off te It It If be tie cooked food he ha did so by using furniture as kindling It If ho had a light at night It was as from a candle HUS ND The Tho husband of ot the missing wo wo woman yo man rilan far Car away in Oriental waters alers on his ship became suspicious Ho com com com- com mu with the tho police pollee Th They y surrounded Maltby's house but they the couldn't break break- jn In on mere as they dp In America They y did not have any evidence e on which to basea base a warrant Alter After a a five day vigil they t finally secured a court order court order to admit t a sanitary Inspector As the police burst In the door Maltby dashed up the stairs flun flung himself on his bed pulled ai pistol and aDd killed himself He had been trying to prepare In an alibi lq In In case casa he was as caught Near the womans woman's body lav Isy la a note said In loving memory of A H H M 1 who committed SU suicide on August IS U |