THE PONSONBY MURDER
ACCUSED BE'FOEE THE COURT.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, March 18. A period of feverish activity on the part of the Auckland police in picking up, arranging, and following all' available clues in connection with what is known as the Ponsonby murder, ended yesterday afternoon in the arrest, of a young man named Dennis Gunii, at a locality in Newton, within a mile, of the scene of the murder. The courthouse wag crowded with spectators, when the prisoner was brought before Mi'. J. E. WilEon, S.M., this "morning, A .considerable number of curious people, including Pre6s photographers, unostentatiously equipped with earners, waited outsido the the courthouse. When the accused camp before the Magistrate in the crowded courtroom he was charged that on Saturday last ho murdered Augustus Edward Braithwaito, also that he broke and entered the Ponsonby Post Office and stole. ,£97. Chief Detective M'Mahon asked for a remand till Friday of next week, and His AVorship acceding to the request, the prisoner was back in the detention room after having been little more than a minute in the public gaze.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 149, 19 March 1920, Page 6
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183THE PONSONBY MURDER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 149, 19 March 1920, Page 6
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