MURDER INVESTIGATION

Chronicle (Levin), 15 November 1949, Page 4

MURDER INVESTIGATION

Money Recoverttd By Police Totalied £600

The money recoverei from the Moutoa ^wamp by a party bf detfectives „yesterday morning totalied in the vicinity of £600. The recovery bf the ttibfley, believed _ to belong to Mrs. Emily Christina Hdll, whose battered body was dlscovered at Foxton -last Sunaay wfeek, .Was*a furthfer Step in tlife inVefetigarion of the. Brutal mufder of the elderly wldbw. Polifefe-.^uperintenderit H. J? Joyce said last riight thdt hfe could ridt disclose the name bf thfe pefsoh who led the invcstigators to the burie'd ' iri'oriey, wliich "Was found in a jarii jar biiried in the slush bfi , the Poxtbri-Shanribn Road. To ffeabh the sptit the pdlite party had to.travel.along a tram track tbwards a flax-mill bfefbrfe ehterlrie the swariip. In chargfe bf the party at Moutoa yesterday were the Commissibnfef bf PoliCfe, Mrii Ifc J. Cririimings, and, the officer in •charge> of thfe Palmerston North Pdlice district, SuperintenUfent H. J. Joyce. Others in the party were senibr-Dfetective o. s. Power and Detective-Sergeant Ji tL. Alty; bf Palmerston North, Eifetfective-Sergeant W. Craigie and jhe departriierit'S firigerprint expert, Sergeant J. Colclough, of Wfellirigtbn. ,A11 were recently concerned in the investigations into the murder at Foxton. Mqre may bfe heard bf the fiiid fef thfe rfemaridfed hearirig bf thfe hriirder ciiarge in riife Ms-gistratfe's Gbiirt; Wellington, dn Friday. Napoleon krbwn, 28-year-OM flaxeutter, will face.a chargfe) of iritirdferirig Mrs, Hali. After. Mrs. Hall's bbdy was found rifer sisters said Shfe had sdvfed about, £600,- which .she carried iri a bag. A brother said Mrs. Hall had between £1400 and £1500.