ARUNDEL TRAGEDY

Grey River Argus, 16 September 1937, Page 5

ARUNDEL TRAGEDY

NO WORD YET About Car Inquired For [Per Press Association]. • CHRISTCHURCH, September 15. Most of the police officers who I have been at Geraldine engaged on I the inquiry into the death of William j Gaby, the 73-year-old storekeeper of I Arundel, who was found dead at his j residence, returned to their respec- ■ live stations to-day. Four detectives, Detective-Sergeant IJ. Bickerdike (Christchurch), Detective N. Thompson (Christchurch), ■ Detective-Sergeant E. M. Thomas (Timaru), and Detective N. Kemp (Timaru) will remain in the district for the present to complete the investigations, with Constable D. Callanan of Geraldine. Superintendent A. Cameron returned to Christchurch to-day. No information has yet been received by the police about the car which picked up a man a few miles south of Arundel, on the Main South Road, about 9 o’clock on the night of the tragedy. The police arc anxious that the driver or the owner should communicate with them, and they were advised this evening that the car was a Chevrolet, and not an Essex, as previously stated. The driver of the car was unaccompanied. the police state, until ho picked up the man near Arundel, and gave him a ride to Timaru. A police constable was stationed at Gaby's store to-day, and to-morrow it will be taken over by the Public ' Trustee. I;