The search for more evidence ‘intensified’ in the investigation of the murder of Henry Eden Ebanks, according to an article on the front page of the 30 Jan. 1975 edition of The Caymanian Compass. It noted, “Fresh information has [led] to ‘round the clock’ searches” by police in West Bay. Calling the murder ‘brutal”, Police Commissioner S.A. Grieff stressed that anyone with information had “a grave responsibility” to assist the police.
Also on the front page was the news that an Esso tanker had arrived and gas was to be distributed to dealers the next day. There had been an issue with the availability of the tanker that normally supplied Cayman, with a smaller tanker coming from Nassau to help with supplies in the interim. Rayburn Farrington, owner of the Esso in West Bay, said he didn’t have enough gas to bother to open up, adding, “so I went fishing. I didn’t catch anything but I had fun.”
Page 2 had a story on a feature film to be shot in Cayman and Chicago. The movie, ‘The Great Chicago Robbery’, was about the $4.7 million armoured vault heist that the Compass had been reporting on. Three men who were allegedly involved, and were now in custody in the US, came to Cayman with some of the cash, part of the largest haul in US history.
A photo on page 3 showed a packed dance floor at the Royal Palms, with the article explaining it was a Cayman Friends event, which attracted 250 people, for an “evening of music and fun” to raise funds for the hospital and needy families.
A section of the editorial concerned the Civil Aviation Department taking the Cayman Airways DC-3 off the Little Cayman run due to the “unsafe condition of the airfield”. It was suggested that it might be time for government to consider establishing an airfield there that “will meet the requirements of the Civil Aviation Authority”.
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