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Canada. As they chatted she learned
that his name was Charles Oliver
Jones, and that he was fairly well off.

They met the next evening, and the
next. In four days Mr. Jones proposed
marriage; and Alice shyly agreed.

And then—here it comes—they
discussed their financial future. Might
as well pool their resources and—
how much money had Alice?

She had $350 in the bank, and some
furniture in storage, left to her by an
aunt. In quick time Smith had her
sell the furniture and draw out the
money. He kept the nest egg for
safekeeping.

Ten days after their first meeting
they were married at the Woolwich
registry office, and went to live in
two furnished rooms at Battersea
Rise.

It was the same old story: the next
day the visit to the park, the bride left
on a bench while Smith disappears.

The return to the lodgings, the
baggage gone. Smith had chalked up
another of his despicably tragic
frauds.

And back to Edith goes Smith at
Weston Super Mare. He brings her a
few presents from this trip. Some
second-hand dresses “he picked up
cheap in London at a sale.” They
belonged, of course, to Alice Reavil.

Four months after the Reavil job,
Smith and Pegler are back in Bristol.
And the lady killer decides on another
trip.

This swing around the country
takes him to Bath (ominous name),
where by accident he met Margaret
Lofty, a forty-year-old spinster and
daughter of a clergyman.

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This time he is John A. Lloyd, and
as usual he gets his prospective bride
to keep news of the impending
marriage from her relatives. Two
weeks before the ceremony, her busi-
ness-like groom-to-be suggests that
Margaret take out an insurance policy
for $3,500. You see Miss Lofty had
confided that she only had a hundred
dollars to her name.

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After he had been
kept in the cells all
night for arguing
with a policeman,
Paris cabaret star
Robert Dinel had a
phone call asking
him to appear at a
charity gala — for
the police sports
fund. He didn’t go.

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That Name Again!

Married in Bath, the couple headed
for London and took furnished rooms
in Highgate, Mr. Lloyd—always so-
licituous about his wife’s comfort—
making sure beforehand from the
landlady that the bathroom was
handy.

They were only going to spend a
day or two there, he said, and then
they were going to Scotland for their
honeymoon.

The next day, what with the ex-
citement of the wedding and the
traveling, Mrs. Lloyd isn’t feeling too
well. So her husband takes her to see
Dr. Bates, nearby.

The good doctor can’t find very
much wrong with her, but he gives her
a few sedative pills.

The next day her business-like hus-
band has her make her will, with
himself as beneficiary. And just to
keep their financial affairs -orderly,
he has her draw out her hundred
dollars—and hand it over.

That night at 7:30, while Mrs.
Lloyd is having a bath, Smith stepped
out to a nearby bakery to get some
biscuits. When he returned he called
to his wife—and there was no answer.

Again the landlady is called up-
stairs by the distraught husband, and
there’s the bride of but two days, dead
in a bathfull of water.

An inquest is held and Smith goes
through his routine act; and the jury
bring in a verdict of accidental death.

And the day after the inquest, the
grieving John Lloyd, gets hold of him-
self long enough to call on Margaret
Lofty’s- lawyers in Uxbridge Road,
London. He wants the will probated,
and the insurance money collected.

We'll leave him talking to lawyer
W. P. Davies at 60 Uxbridge Road,
while we catch up with another actor
in this drama of death and deceit.

Mr. Burnham, the father of de-
ceased Alice Burnham (you'll remem-
ber he took an instant dislike to
Smith), had pondered over the sud-
den and tragic death of his daughter.

Putting Things Together

One day, about the middle of De-
cember, 1914, and just 12 months after
his daughter’s mysterious death, he
was glancing through the News of the
World when he noticed something
about a woman dead in a bath. The
words rivetted his attention.

It was a short news item about the
peculiar death of a Mrs. Lloyd of 14

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