NO ARREST YET MADE

Chronicle (Levin), 7 June 1947, Page 5

NO ARREST YET MADE

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Auckland Murder Case Baffles Police

By Telegr~ph-

AUCKLAND, June 6. No trace has yet been found of 'the ' weapon with which Mrs. Gladys Ruth . Riisden was murdered in the kitctieii of her lionie' ai Horotutu Road, One Tree Hill, on Thursday.. No arrest has been made. The suggestion that Mrs. Rusden may have been interrupted while she was doing hei' housework, has arisen fi'om fhe fact that a double bed was only partly made when seen by. the .police. An inquest was opened before the Coroner, Mr. A. Addison, and after evi dence. of identification had ■ been given by a brother of Mrs. Rusden, ii was adjourned sine die. A post mortem examination of the body was later e.arried out. Detectives this afternoon were "tootheombing" the house where the murder was committed, and -also the adjacent area. Reinforcements were .'ailed in to assist in the search for ,-lues. The weapon used to inflict the wonian's intensive injuries has noi been discovered and this, of course, is one of the main preoc'cupations of the investigators, The sehoolboy who says he saw Mrs. Uusden in her bedroom asserts that.'ie was sure it was she because he saw her hair plaihlv. She -had her back to the window and was smoking, he states. Mrs. Rusden 's bed was half made, wliich suggests that she might have been interrupted while making it. The mattress had been smoothed and the bottoni sheet properly laid. Because there was not a." s^eck of blood t'oiuid anywhere elsey it is ne lieved that tlie murder occurred in the kitchenette. Although her ho$se ^i'sless than 20 feet from the Rusdensif liome, a neighbour, Mrs. G. W. Ivitson, "did not liear any unusnal sound or. cries. Mrs. Ivitson was at home until 1,45 p.m. She states that she saw nobody arrive or leave the Rusdehs' house.