Murder Sequel: Police Seek Strange Man

Chronicle (Levin), 3 October 1949, Page 3

Murder Sequel: Police Seek Strange Man

DUNEDIN, Oct. 2. No arrest has yet been made in the Moa Creek murder case and police reinforcements are being called in. It is understood that a senior detective from Timaru and another from Christchurch will reach the scene of the crime tomorrow. Superintendent J. Mclntyre, who returned to Dunedin at the weekend, went back to Moa Creek today. Inspector A. G. McHugh, Chief Detective T. Y. Hall and a large body of police ofticers, are still on the scene. No fresh development has occurred at the weekend and it is understood that .the murder weapon has not yet been recovered. One line on inquiry at the weekend concerned an old model motor car iu which two men were seen in Centrai Otago. It is stated ofiicially tonight that the car had been found by the police and that the vehicle was in no way connected with the case. It has been alleged that about 3 p.m. Jast Wednesday, a stranger was seen in the vieinity of the woolshed in which the 63-year-old Moa Cieek farmer, William Fraser Mclntosh, was brutallv killed that afternoon. The police are anxlious to interview this stranger. He is described as being about 30 years oi age 5ft 7in tall and of strong build He was wearing a dark colouied suit but n6 hat, having dark wavy hair, a full face and bright eyes. Police inquiries which were maintain ed throughout the weekend, will be eou tinued tomorrow. The fact that strangers to the district might have gone unobserved on the fateful Wednesday afternoon, is rogarded by residents of Ida Valley as less remarkable than it qiight at first appear. The murder is believed to have taken place during the radio broadcast of the final Ranfurly Shield match of the season and most residents of the district who had not visited Dunedin for the event, would be close to their radios during the afternoon.