ARREST IN KENYA

Press, Volume C, Issue 29515, 17 May 1961, Page 15

ARREST IN KENYA

Murder Of Woman

(N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NAIROBI, May 16. Police in Kenya yesterday announced that they had arrested a Kikuyu tribesman and charged him with the murder of Mrs Nora Osborne on May 5. The Kenya commissioner of police, Mr Richard Catling, said the man was arrested last Wednesday in the Fort Hall district, 55 miles from Nairobi, but the news was withheld because it might obstruct further investigations. Police are still searching for four other men, also believed to be Kikuyu, who broke into the Osbornes' farmhouse. clubbed Mrs Osborne to death and wounded her husband, British United Press said. strong force of security men today arrested 69 Africans in the Rift Valley where Mrs Osborne was killed, the London “Daily Express" reported from Nairobi. The newspaper said police have reported new evidence about Mau Mau activity in the forests in the district and the biggest round-up of Mau Mau suspects since the emergency was now being carried out.

Hie murder yesterday of another white woman. Mrs Christine Swanepoel, governess to four children at a farm at Sotik. has sparked off another big manhunt. A Magistrate yesterday imposed a collective fine of £6OO on an African village as a result of a cattle theft in the area and an attack by villagers on police. Part of the fine is to be used to compensate the company whose cattle was stolen and part to an injured policeman. The rest will be returned to the villagers if their behaviour is good in the next 12 months.