The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1922, Page 16

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929, ‘The First ‘Love Tragedy of the Air”! How Dr. Gordon Ley, Madman Admirer of Beautiful Eileen Reed, Driven to | Insane Jealousy by Unrequited Love, | Pursued Her All Over Europe in an Airplane, Sought to Kill Her and His P “Rival,’’ Only to Fall at | Last to His Own Death in a “Crash’’ That Can Never Be Explained i Mrs. Galloway for one brief week be- By Ferdinand Tuohy. came the best known woman in the Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) country, her picture everywhere, her by Press Publishing Company. life written up in minute detail, It PARIS, Aug. 10. is in this kind of glorification of of the prettiest fre- Baughtiness (for lack of a better word) that the Anglo-Saxon race ex- cels—and might well learn a lesson Politan cafe near the from the supposedly inferior Latin Opera in this city has who Washes all his solled Hnen in lately gained local re- camera, ; ea lowever, to proceed, only a few S nown as the frat sexs ago I met herein the little “woman in the case’ t N ‘ quenters of a cosmo- cafe I have mentioned, Eileen Roeea, s of a love mystery of still a strikingly handsome young ‘ the alr. That she is not dead is the woman and full of fun and sparkling me atest chance. anecdote anent her friends across the . English Channel. I rememb : For years prior to the unique trag- (arn ember saying casually that on next writing to Eng- : f edy which has now given her a new land I should mention that I had met st ‘Jeane of life Eileen Reed, fair-haired, her. “Oh, no, please don't do that! 1 a blue-eyed daughter of the leading Lon- 4,"ON, no please don't do that! ; don cartoonist, E. T. Reed, had gone 7h Niugyive ge here und eae in daily, nourly terror. want people to know about me. I'm ‘A madman, with money to burn, had fallen hopelessly in love with her, und pursuing her from place to place and from country to country, would threaten her with revolvers and knives. Suddenly, just when she thought herself safely hidden away ta some hamlet in the Pyrenees or Italy, her madman-lover would arrive—ho was actually on his way by air to run her to earth once more at Montreux, Switzerland, when the tragedy which forms the pivot of this story was cnacted. ——e Figure that this kind of thing had gone on almost without cessation since the armistice, that never for a day was Eileen Reed sure that she would ree i he knew—und | the morrow. For 5! more decided on flight before him and took train for Montreux, Switzerland. But there is strong ground for bellev. ing that Ley had engaged private d lectives to track down her every mov. At all events, Ley wrote Borrodaile « last note to the effect that he intended flying to Montreux the next day but would stop off en route in Paris to shoot him (Borrodaile). The end is wrapt in mystery, and will continue to be. Dr. Ley, more agitated than ever, presented himself at the Croy- don aerodrome and ordered a ma- chine for an immediate trip to Mon~ treux. ‘The official of the English company, remembering his “target practice’ on the o sion of his last cioss-channel trip, declined to book whim. Cursing and swearing, Ley mo- events proved that she was right—thut her infatuated pursuer was not blufl- ing and that one day, sooner or later, tyite ery low; an you wee: hardly he would kill her, or try to. ever go anywhere except to this little Her one remedy, to ask for police cafe," Protection, might be all right for a My fair companion seemed so set Ms or a month, but—well, onecan- UP0n nothing being sald about her not that I naturally bowed—ittle dream expect the police to go On PrO- ing that I should be writing this to- tecting you forever. Apart from day. Or that her parting remark which Miss Reed, a tall, athletic girl, held such grim consequence. As we sipped the last of he idea of being afraid of a of our hated t d to nee things SPCutlf, a fifty-year-old, monocled njan and was determined to si Englishman of the don'tcherknow tprough herself. All her life, from brand hove in sight. earliest childhood, had been spent ‘Must be off now," suid Eileen, among her father's artistic friends, "8ing, “here's my fate coming, Prob- ably going to marry him s hold 3 joon. At many of whose names are househ least if I'm alive. Don't be surprised Dr. Ley started blazing away at the structure of the words in Bohemia, and at seventeen to read in your paper any morning machine while the terrified pilot sought feverishly for a land- friends we are (and she clinked torea over to the French aeroplane she had run away from home—if ‘Galety Girl Murdered.’ It'll be me glasses again). For your trouble, of- Good-by!"" i lace in the fields hel ficer, you must join us, Gordon, or- headquarters and was promptly able taking the subway a mile or two may y! sill = ing place in the fields helow. Pie RR bt ieden Sent had id to book a passuge in a three-seater machine about to leave for Paris with Pilot Morin at the control. Within half an hour the aeroplane was over . - * Folkestone and heading out to sea But’ in her heart, Eileen Reed re- Al’ seemed well. Then with appal turned to Paris with the darkest mis- ling suddenness and without the givings as to the future. She had Slightest -warning—the day was « escaped once more from her madman &lerious one and the engine showed pursuer, but he remained still the 0 signs of missing—the biplane sume fanatic bent on marrying or nose-dived headlong into the sea killing her. For the moment she had from a height of five thousand feet. persuaded him to return to London, Nothing was seen to break off in mid- and to go on with his work, but only air. Spectators on the beach below on the understanding that she would declared that they never saw a more come across and visit him directly, unaccountable fall, nor one in which Which she had no intention of doing. the pilot seemed to have lost such Wor, apart from her being linked up complete control of his machine, with Borrodalle, she saw in Ley a making no effort to right it. Just half-erazed dope fiend, ever having sheer, sheer down, into the Channel recourse to drugs, now to stimulate, When the cross-channel steame now to calm himself, The calm, bril- Victoria hove to beside the remnants lant diagnoser of brain trouble in ten minutes later, it was to find the Wimpole Sty the medical adviser machine broken to mate and of fashionable familics was, she knew, two bodies—those of Ley and Morin— more in need of brain care than any floating hard t both terribly of his patients. So in Paris sie re- lated und the latter virtually devapi- solved to live more quietly than ever, tated. The body of the third passan. to try and be “unfindable ger, a Frenchman named Vurrili, And it was harder in Bileen Reed's never found. Ley’s body wus this self-effacement, than actually identified by a fellow medivo And Ley ordered. And the couple drunk joyously with the minions of the law. #0 be characterizea—to live her own 9, ‘ recent summer's mort life as a chorus girl at the Galety there arrived at the Croyaea here tor would indulge in no more target — Miss Reed knew more and acted on Theatre, London. Of this interlude, drome, London's airpo: Practice en route. “He seemed highly {t. The thing to do was to humor airport, a tall, hand- gxojted," added Barnard subsequently. Ley once more, as she had done so pe , 7 some Engli 4 0 and in mitigetion of a certain ape cae opt ae Sorgen tay “His eyes were dilated and he paced often in the past, and to get him out ‘ " her + ver, Miss Reed Sirect. where live all the leadh geo’ to and fro at the aerodrome, worry: of the way with a minimum of de- wrote la 1 English review titioners of England. Di. # Prac: ing me as to whether the French cus- lay, So she agreed to go to a restau- Sng land rv. Ley was toms authorities would let lim land rant in the town with him—she even a8 follows: well-known at tho airport, havin } Ml ‘ + having with a revolver, so I thought the proposed the affair—and to spl “What people du not realize is that been the most frequent user of the easiest way was to get it over and tle oe champagne with nen wreuiates ours is a life apart, a life within a Cross-channel air route to France dump him at Deauville, ‘Hut 1 vowed murderer in celebration of her own durin, 6 curr ear. life. Not only do we live our own {Quine peeuarent oh On this oc- that it would be the last time I should escape, ‘That was the toast these two " : e dei © depart Instantly ever carry him lives, but we also live to give pleas- for Deauville, the ultra-fashionable so the Captain and the doctor set ure and amuse, Consequently, inthe French beach, 4 : Da sascha) WIth Merman 68) deine off once more on thelr flight, the doing of it we are gay. 4 + lelay the de Channel far below i the coast of Hav: % y ar , for us @ sparkling wine cup. Our Haviland Company's star pilot, Cap- irance stretched out map-wise ahead tain Barnard, was assigned to the job spirits come always to the bubblo, and and soon his machine was in the air, bain Hegre Aa ar nen the one’s spirits in that state are led to the route chosen being down to the broad eatunry of the Seine at Havre the brimming over. ®80 you see our Coast ut Folkestone, thence ucross was crossed and the pilot commenced lives should not be judged by the ‘irty miles of channel to Boulogne, a tong, winding dcx on to the and down along the French coast : : ch coast past ye. ome at Deauville, Then a land- way of prosaic, normal lives. One Abbeville, Dieppe and Havre to Deau- ee eaat and, leaping i He needs to be strong-minded on the ville, . # However 5 machine, Dr, Ley was away and out stage, There are so many men who ver, the biplane had not been of sight In a trice, leaving the pilot look upon women of the stage as fair More than half an hour aloft when an ynpaid, but determined nevertheless to extraordinary currence ‘ game, The girl who contemplates g0- Capt, Barnard pee ats jprouene fly straight back home and report ing on the stage looks on the wrong at the Folkestone aerodrome. Not lone be et ed Y Meanwhile his passenger, as ind! side of the life first, What she falls @fter leaving Croydon the solitary pi Instead of flying for her life, Eileen approached the Ne genger in the machine De tne, mist cated by the narrative equently i . most others. Her whole vivid perse who happened to be crossing to to realize 19 the aide the public falls oiMeG maving mee ae Tey; had pieced together, rusted from cafe to doctor and disarmed him. ality was based on going around and France on the stearter i to see of the machine with a revolver, firing °#f¢ In, Deauville and along the \ EOS ne ee ee Mdlie ee ee ee F The “certain episode’ above re- off altogether in the region of frre boardwalk asking the waiters for seving and doing, and she had just on 1ore unnecountable serial front, not knowing b |. he deseribed in detail. Ultimately he could now risk seeing met her target practice and hit the pilot? 0. in the divorce court, ay the accused snowing but that the fusil gael ids Wan directed et ir asit nent; wan dirented 0 (0 Peta young peopte drank together that once, tv again before the culmi- had 1 ually aimed at the latt ed to end his ¢ nating act in this drama, and always determ| a y existence <u oway. For days feverishly ‘ . I in a ishly here and there in the fields beach Where sat Eileen Reed and noon at Deauville: f Se the case held London with its “‘racy'’ below for u landing ea tOn ailght. “the man in the ¢ one Borre Aiio awn oacabe ut the “little cafer‘round the corner’ with the craziest of suicides, and one = bm tales of life behind the footlights with !9& Barnard demanded an explana- daile—the — fifty-year-old — monocled “To: your escay responded Ley, “4 seated half behind a door whence not even sho of by the sensa- Dey i o1 . - ol e . she could see g ho entere¢ thout tional novelists ery ch ~Ex the war asa background, The jun- HON from his passenger, tailin wtisheaaa GF she don'teherknow And they drank: ate Beenie tae rninae: vee ele = As ket lated in which h declined to go on brand. While drinking the police arrived, being soen herself. And Borrodatle has since been written about tho os keting as related in court was rather “Why, you are a sportemun, aren't The vest passed in a fash—or prepared to arrest the visitor from the Was there and no less uneasy. teagedy both on the British and the ae on @ par with that set forth in the you? I thought you flew in the war? Father in three flashs as Ley wlazed Chose exploit. had spread For Ley in London had tracked the French sides, the former seek ne 4 diary of Col. Repington, only in WeM, what does a little revolver prac- @Way with his revolver at Eileen, Atl the town, What they saw levers down and had threatened a mae comers capital out of the eis ° a a ° oon as his practice permitted It, com- affair by {insinuating thut the French ie Eileen Reed's case had more to do ‘ce mutter Sot half as ‘windy! as (ree shots mii 4 them more th ever ‘ on as his practice permitted | & a ae Andina ng that the Preneh a : ith a anttalreraft fire, surely And Ley traprdinary thin: k with the French require but little Ime across and shooting Borrodalle. machines used In the cross-channel + with Bohemia than with society. Still, went on luconically: “You see, Trim this whole tale, transpir Instead nal conviction in this direction) fateful missive reposed in the service are not ax good as the British; £- the same hectic, ‘for to-morrow we going to kill a man directly I land of flying for her lif fainting or that the English are mad, .In tho latter's wallet, And after Deauville, the French insisting that Morin, the é inshine. and gayly clinking glasses, its recipient had only too much pilot, met with a terrible end In the ai atmosphere was there, and also &t Deauville and 1 want to get my doing any other of the things one pre or elarm A mad doctor tn alr at the hands of Ley a ‘ hand In.’ fait dose ween. iahict ait os vat Eileen and Ley the particular butterfly on the wheel artly because he believed t ee Me or apnrsatan) irc “it's quite all right now, office London (mad at Ieast in one direc The th holds its mysteries in was heralded as the fairest visitor to to be fooling, partly because lis sn. and gently disarmed } 9 Sooke pluined the former in her fluent tion), a girl and a man hiding terror- legion, 80, too, the sew. Now the ai the divorce court in the memory of ord as an avi; pat y because his rec- and gently d him, She told aviey “It was all a misunderstand- stricken in Paris, and the inevitable has at last got a mystery all its ow the oldest court reporter, The news- challenged, the. ne was iad bean the ae ove es 1 neve were simply rehearsing a acroplane Were the ingredients of passion and of ylolence papers carried “streamer” headlines proceed across the Channel. tev a Ling te lt ’ for tho cinema and some silly of the last phase And Fileen Reed can emerge on nel, but on I Knew he would ston’ s tt @nd the sworn understanding thut the doc- him tw. And he did went and yplied my friend The a threats becoming more more from lier little cafe ‘round the th ve cartridges. Yousee how good and more terrible, Hileen Reed once corner. A ) 1 f a “The Gaiety Gir ‘8 Divorce’