STILL MISSING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2348, 2 January 1915, Page 10

STILL MISSING

THE > ; CHASE'. AFTER ROTTERMAN.; " 'detectivesof: the; Wei-' -lingidii 'district' are. stiE busily "engaged hunting . for. Arthur','.Rottermahj ■■■' the %qiing Germany. who is ; : '' suspected' of having murdered Mt. and Mrs.'iM'Cann (his.: employers),.'and ,'their infant.■ boy' at-'Ruahino on Monday last, .vjoth' "the : city /and '/suburbs.' : are .-■; being carefully ■'watphed- for-any-' trace 'of-the .missing .man,',, and the "country police'have been 'warned ,to make _ inquiries "■' throughout, thejr respective,- districts; 'It has been pointed :out. that the: suspicion; that he ■may.;be : ;inWellingbn is, after all, merely /speculation, as •' Rotterman- ■'■ might have left theitrain atMarton and .gone' north_ either to the Wabganui.or/Taranaki .districts; or he may have , left... the, ■ : train. at.'. Palmerston North, and -travelled 'through the gorge to; East Coast territory. :All-'sorts, of people, have 'supplied .the .police .with cliies of thovmissing man,'-some, asserting; positively., that they.! had", practic;aliy:;;located hiihi::but, >so- far all inquiries into L these .cases:: haye '. proved abortive. '■ The police were assured yesterday /'that there, was. a strange manacting, peculiarly ,111;; the grounds -..'of a house;at -Karori,.; which had been' tensn'tless for, the'.last; year. -A posse, of detectives ''went^'out';.:'surrounded the place, made;a gradual approach, all on tho alert for\ the-worst, and found— what? The owner" of the place, taking advantage '; of ] the ■: holiday,. harmlessly , • employed,, in ..trying to make the place habitable, after- its long i term.'■' without a tenant.! .;:£;'.-'■;'"■ .-.',- ,"■' . 'Those who' haye. V seen Rotterman lately'; state; that. :the .'photograph reproduced in.: •-yesterdays.' Dominion .makesjthe '.man:'-rathcr'-'fuller: hi'- the -face\thau:.- he-'actiially.'is:; Since he. has, 'been "r'ashore ;.-lie.'.ha'sV: lost •somei- ! 'of' his roundness-arid his face' La's -.-become'l •h'arder>ahdyiner.,' •!*■:;-:;:.. ', '•