Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publishers are pestered by a man who insists: "They found the letters F O R D on the brown paper around the torso, didn't they? Well my name is OFFORD and I've been in the white slave game, see? I'm not afraid of Sir Bernard Spilsbury or Scotland Yard. They'll never find out who that woman was, see? And they can't touch me until they identify her. You can't be tried for murdering 'X.' They've got to say who was murdered, see? And they...
Thus far Mr. Offord has found no takers. With chagrin Sir Bernard and Scotland Yard's smartest inspectors told a Brighton Coroner's Jury last week that, as for Corpse No. 1, they have not been able to determine how, when or where she met Death, or who she was. As for Corpse No. 2, the acquittal of the Dancing Waiter has left Scotland Yard with no candidate for the murderer of Violette Kaye. Said imperturbable Sir Bernard Spilsbury, frankly baffled, "I find myself unable to reach any conclusion...
Five days later two human legs were found under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station and Scotland Yard was off on a fresh mystery. The Waterloo legs, according to Sir Bernard Spilsbury, are male...
...While witnesses watched fascinated, a trained nurse in a bathing suit lay down in Sir Bernard's own tub. Seizing her unexpectedly by the feet. Sir Bernard jerked and held her with her head under water. This sudden upending sent the water rushing up her nose, so completely stunning the nurse that she made no struggle, almost drowned, was resuscitated with much effort...
Married. Diane Chamberlain. 23, secretary and only daughter of Sir Austen Chamberlain; and Arthur Terence Maxwell, partner in Glyn, Mills & Co, London bankers; in St. Stephen's Chapel beneath the Houses of Parliament in London...