The case for the Crown was fully presented to-day when Jack Notyre, otherwise known as Tony Mancini, Brighton cafe waiter, made hie fifth appearance in the Brighton police court which was besieged by great [crowds seeking admission.
Prisoner, who was arrested on July' 17, is charged with the wilful murder of Miss Violette Kaye, a dancer, whose mutilated body was found in a large unk in a boarding house in Kemp Street, Brighton.
'The' Crown to-day revealed that 'Notyre had lived with Miss Kaye as man and wife in a flat at Park Crescent, Brighton. On May 14, Notyre told' neighbours that his wife had departed with her uncle and moved new lodgings on Kemp Street, Thereafter, the dancer was never seen At to-day's hearing, the police produced the head of a hammer which was found in a cupboard in the fat occupied by the prisoner and the slain dancer. This hammer head, according to Sir Bernard Spilbury, the pathologist, fitted the wounds in Miss Kaye's head.
Accused, who was arrested following 24 hours of intense police activity, denied his guilt when" taken into custody. In a statement made to the authorities, he declared that return ing one night to the flat at Park Crescent, he was unable to obtain an answer to the bell. He gained admission by climbing through a wine dow and found Miss Kaye lying dead Notyre said he became very frightened as he could not prove he had not killed the dancer. "He went out the following day and purchased a trunk into which he placed the body of the slain girl. With the ald of a maid, who was a friend of his, he Femoved the trunk to the house on Kemp Street where it was found by the potice—Reuter.
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