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Who Was Mastermind (Continued From Page 37) I daughter. The telegran explained [ that Mrs. Masann hai been delayed fy Mir. Becker.Probably the name the school authorities that the two was false. eldcr children would be returning "Shorlly. after the receipt of in a week. these bank drafts Mrs. MacLean "Mrs. MacLean's youngest child received a ietter in her hushand's handwriting. It had been posted in was referred io in this teiegram by Reigate. Surrey on Aug. 5, 1951. and! a name known only to Mrs. Mac- was of an affectionate, personal na. Lean, her mother and other inti- 1ure as from husband to wife. It mates. gave no clue as to Mr. MacLean's "The telegram had been handed whcrcabouts or the reason for his In at a post office in Territet at disappearance but it explained that 10:58 that morning by a woman the 'bank drafts, which for con- whose description did NOT agree venience had been sent to Mrs. Dun-? with that of Mrs. MacLean. bar, were intended for Mrs. Mac- Lean. . The handwriting on the tele. "Lady MacLean received a further gram form wns not Mrs. Mac- Jetter from her son on Aug. 15, 1951. characteristics similar to those in There is no doubt that it was in his own handwriting. the telegrams received In 1951 by It had been posted at Herne Hill on Aug. 11 ... Lady MacIean, Mrs. MacLean and Mrs. Bassell. Wash. Post and "On Sept. 11, 1953, Mrs. MacLean. "From witnesses in Switzerland Times Herald who was living in Geneva, Jeit there. hy car with her three children. She ]and Austria, it seems clear that the Wash. News arrangements for Mrs] MacLean's had told her mother, who was stay- denarture from Geneva had been Wash. Star ing with her. that'she had unex. pectcdly come across an acquaint- carefully planned. She went by train N. Y. Herald ance whom she and her husband had from Lausanne. passingl the 'Swiss. Austrian frontier and arriving at Tribune previously know'n in Cairo, and that Schmarzach St. Veit in the Ameri hr had invited her and the children N. Y. Miror to sprnd the weck-end with him at can Austria at approxi- 9:15' on the morning Daily Worker Territet, near Montreux. She stated mately JO that she would return to Geneva on Sept. 12. The Worker New Leader children to attend school the foi- [and witnesses traveling on the train] lowing day. ]established she left the train at this Date the mailer to Her Majesty's Consul General in Geneva and also by tele. phone to London. Srcurity officers were at once dispntched to Geneva. Swiss police were already making intensive in- quiries. On Sept. 16 Mrs. Mac. Lean's car was found in a garage in Lausanne. Shr had left it on the aiternoon of ihe lith, saying she would return for it in a weck. The igarage hand who reported this adtd that Mrs. MacLran had taken ipr children to Lausanne's railuay Station. On the same day. Sept. 16, Mrs. Dunbar reported to Geneva police the receipt of a tele- gram purporting to come from her