STILL PROBING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 2

STILL PROBING

POLICE, STILL BUSY STRANGERS’ MOVEMENTS THE WAIROA MYSTERY (S.R.) WAIROA, this day. The big police party inquiring into the deaths of Brigadier Annie Smyth, aged 62, and her sister. Miss Rosamond Smyth, aged about 70, whose battered bodies were found in the Salvation Army Hall on Friday, August 21, show no signs of dispersing. and so far as present indications go are likely to be engaged for at least another week, possibly longer. Inquiries at present appear to be concentrated on the movements of visitors or strangers between August 9 and 10, and every bit of information possible is still being sought by the police. Chief Detective J. B. Young told the Herald’s representative yesterday that the police had received much information regarding the movements of Brigadier Smyth from the public and they now wished to secure as much more as they possibly could regarding her movements on Saturday, August 8. “We also want to know as much as possible about the movements of any persons, particularly visitors and stranger's to the district, on August 7, 8, 9 and 10,” he said. “We will welcome any information at all. Even if it appears to people to have little to do with the matter, they should bring it along and we will decide. If people cannot see us we will be pleased to call and see them.’’