◆ SpookStack

i pe Third DRAMA IN THAT GETAWAY SHIP DID I SEE THE THIRD MAN: Express Staff Reporter Man — the British official in Washington who tipped off Maclean and Burgess that they were tnder suspiclon— may have been in the ship with them when they fled. One of the 200 passengers in the steamer Falaise crossing that night of May 25, 1951, from Southampton to St. Malo was Mr. William John Lyons, @ Londen porter. night: “The ship sai wht due to Pat at, 10 pm Just three minutes before that time two men I now know to have been Maclean and Burgess boarded the ship. “{ turned to a man next to , aman in an Anthony Eden hat and a raincoat, and T said: “yy, word. they" ale cutting ‘\rhe man looked at me wit! an! expression which plain} said ‘What business is It of WILLIAM LYONS I remenber .. + yours?" Then as Maclean and Burgess reached the top of the gangway he stepped forward and greeted them. “This man was ft. 10in, 01 6ft, tall, clean-shaven, sailo He spoke softl complexioned, and us far ag I could judge he was English.” At St. Malo, said Mr. Lyons; “came the incident which made me temember all this. “We arrived ut about 9.30 in the morning and it was simply bucketing with rain All the passengers thought it Was out of the question to go ashore — except Maciean and Burgess and the other man. “Just as son as the gangway was placed they went ashore, getting soaked. “Then I noticed an odd thing. “There was only one taxl—a | very nice, new, black Job which drove up, eitcled about, waited aft of the siiprinstead of on the rank opposite the e three men got into she taxi and off it shot That was the Jast_ that was seen of Maclean and Burgess. And The Third Man? Sole people think they saw him in the'ship back to Southampton that night,