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AUCKLAND MYSTERY

YOUNG MAN’S BODY FOUND CIRCUMSTANCES POINT TO MURDER By Telegraph— Prase Aeeociation. Auckland, July 17. A case the circumstances of which point to murder is being investgiated by the police. The body of a youth, almost 20 years of age, Francis Edward Jew, was found about 11 o’clock this morning on a vacant section, at Grey Lynn, Arch Hill, with the head badly battered. The section is covered with blackberry and bramble. The body was found on a track used as a short cut. Deceased’s father is John Henry Jew, a carpenter, residing at Grey Lynn, Arch Hill. A blood-stained paling was found near the body. There are two large wounds on the back of the head, one just above the forehead, one just under the nose, and one just below the right ear, all indicating that he had been struck by the paling. TS*} fact that an overcoat was found across (he knees suggests that there had been no struggle, and there are no other indications of suoh having' occurred. Jew left homo at midday on Saturday, and attended a football match, returning to Grey Lynn, but not to his home, with five others at 5.30 o’clock. He was last seen alive nt 8 o’clock last night, near- the scene of the tragedy. A mystifying fact is that although heavy rain fell during the night, the clothes on the body were quite dry, and no footprints were visible. Deceased was a grocer’s assistant, working at a shop 200 yards away from the scene.

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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 251, 18 July 1921, Page 4

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AUCKLAND MYSTERY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 251, 18 July 1921, Page 4

AUCKLAND MYSTERY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 251, 18 July 1921, Page 4

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