Neighbours had commented recently on Lemon's strange behaviour: He had been seen crouching on his hands and knees by garden hedges. Slight of build, Lemon was only five feet three inches in height.
On Sunday night, after he had paid an unusual visit to church with his wife and three children, neigh-hours saw him trying to hide as he went along the street to the letter-box at the corner, He was on his way to post a letter to his brother-in-law, Captain John Aynsley, who lives 100 yards away in Robson-road, West Worthing The letter was to tell Mrs. Anysley, Mrs. Lemon's sister, that she would find five dead bodies in the house in Sea-place the next morning.
As soon as he received it, Captain Aynsley hurried to his brother-in-law's home. He looked through a back window, and immediately went for the police, who discovered the bodies. Lemon was dead in the kitchen, his head near the gas oven.
Lemon came to live in retirement at Worthing nine years ago after a life spent in the East. He met and married his wife Doris—a former liner stewardess—in Singapore.
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