BRITISH PRIEST
MURDERED

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LONELY VILLA
CRIME

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Ex-Army Chaplain

From Our Own Correspondent
CAIRO, Sunday

The discovery this morning that a British resident here had been the victim of a murder - the second of its kind in Cairo within the last four months - is causing the gravest anxiety among the European section of the population.

The victim is a former Roman Catholic chaplain in the British Army, Father John Carden, aged 51, who resigned his commission two years ago. Last June he came to live in Egypt.

Early this morning his unclothed body was found by a servant in a bedroom of the lonely villa he rented at Helmich, a Cairo suburb, with the head almost severed.

An old razor blade was wedged fast in the wound in his throat and his chest bore terrible slashes as evidence of the desparate struggle he must have waged against his assasins.

Police inquiry reveals that robbery was apparently the motive of the crime, as drawers had been emptied and papers ransacked in Father Carden’s house.

SEVERAL ARRESTS

A number of arrests have been made among the natives, and the police state that several clues are in their possession.

All the senior British police officers of the city are at present at the scene of the tragedy, including Russell Pasha, the famous British police chief, who is at the head of the city’s criminal investigation department.

The anxiety of the European residents in Cairo will be understood when it is recalled that the police are still without any clue to the murderers of Captain John Hubert Roberts, of Swansea, whose body was found in a Nile canal near the Pyramids last October.

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AWARDED M.C.

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NAME CHANGED WHEN
WAR BROKE OUT

Father Carden had intended to come back to England within the next six months to take up parochial duties in the diocese of Southwark.

“The Bishop of Southwark and I called on him at his home in Helmich a few weeks ago,” an official of the diocese told a Daily Mail reporter.

“He came of German parentage and his real name was Hessenauer, but he changed it to Carden before taking a commission as Chaplain to the Forces.”

Father Carden was educated at Dulwich College and St John’s Seminary, Wonersh, near Guildford, Surrey. He served in the war from 1915-18, being mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross. He was created a C.B.E. in 1919.

From 1919-20 he was senior Roman Catholic chaplain at Aldershot, whence he was transferred to Egypt until 1929. Returning to England, he served at Tidworth and Aldershot.