THE ONEWHERO TRAGEDY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2383, 12 February 1915, Page 6

THE ONEWHERO TRAGEDY

•WARRANT FOR ARREST. OF NORMAN KEALS, ISSUED. JBy Telejrreish.—Press AesooiatlonJ. Auckland, February 11. A (Warrant has been issued for ifiS arrest of Norman .> Keals, charged with the murder ol Mrs. Keals. Accused is a farmer, aged 29 years, and a brother of Leslie' Keals, the husband of the murdered woman. He has been missing since the tragedy. i huntinc the accused. SEARCHERS HOT ON THE TRAIL. , Auckland,-February 11. The search for Norman Keals, for whose arrest a warrant was issued today, on > a charge of murdering his brother's wife and . abducting her six-weeks'-old baby, was rigorously prosecuted in the Onewhero' district to-day by a'large force of police, settlers, and Maori searchers.- To-day they found fresh footprints madte by a barefooted man near the spot where last evening they discovered a man's boots and socks, and these were followed along the guUy for. a considerable distance, being eventually lost in the thick bush. The rough nature of the country is delaying somewhat thjo work of the searchers, but tho latter; believe they are hot on the trial, and expect, to find the suspected' man at. any time. The latter is a healthy and hardened bushman, and may elude his pursuers for some time, but he is without food or shelter, and it is expected that hunger will force him to show himself. Rain fell on the ranges to-day, and the searchers had a most unpleasant time in the soaking bush. The search will be prosecuted to-morrow.