AUCKLAND MURDER MYSTERY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2270, 2 October 1914, Page 6

AUCKLAND MURDER MYSTERY

"WORK OF A CRIMINAL LUNATIC,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

• Auckland, October 1. The theory most favoured in official circles is that the Nelson Street murder (in which the woman Frances Marshall was done to death) was a crime that cannot,be p'u'nished. ' Viewing the circumstances . from every point, the. au- i thorities agree in believing that tlia deed was the act of a man insane, momentarily or otherwise. The perplexing point'is that no trace of the murderer's movements can bo discovered. His hands aud clothing must have been drenched in blood ; he must' have carried away some evidences of his crime. A medical man who is a. recognised authority in mental cases expressed the opinion that the man who perpetrated the crime is a maniac, not a man no had become temporarily .insane and bad attacked the woman with demoniacal ferocity 'during a moment of madness, but a man who is completely and obviously -insane. He does not think it a ch.se in which tho perpetrator would, immediately calm down quietly, leavo the victim, and return to his. ordinary haunts in a normal state of mind. uw deed seenieil clearly that of s « j lunatic, who was mad at the time and is still at large. - '