THE JAVA MURDER.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1925, Page 2

THE JAVA MURDER.

S'l'ILL A AIVSTK.ItV. [Australia A N.Z. table Association.] WT.LTKA'RKDEN. September 2d. Interviewed at Soiiraliaya. M.r Kirtou declared that he had received a pnlhe In delay his departure. a- it was presumed that he would be able to assist the police at tl:e inquiry into the murder of Mrs Alarhe. tie wife ul the Fj.'inisli enllsul, at Sydney, who wits found dead in her bedroom in a hotel at a resort near Batavia, • lava, where she was spending a holiday. lie- body having many wounds. It atipears that the rooms adjoining thal of Mrs Maelie ill the Carnet Hotel were unoccupied. T 111!-, even ii Mrs Maeiie had raised an alarm, she could not have lieen heard. The I olive contend that All's .Maelie was followed Iron'. Singapore by her murderer. It is runioured that ai Singapore. M,rs Maelie got in touch with a Chinese. which caused the tirst idea that the murder had a political background, hut it appears that her lio-t only introduced her in a rich Chinaman in Singapore living in a palace, which Mrs Maelie once visited. The medical evidi'iu e show s that suicide was impossible. Six wounds were inllii led. either with a heavy weapon or a sharp one used with the greatest force, which it is impossible for her lo have inflicted herself. A st, range fact is t Hat while the cushions and clothes ol the victim and the bed sheets were soaked in blood, no stains were found in tile room. Ti e police have established the tact thal a doctor called lo a patient in the hotel was delayed so long that he went lo bed in the hotel early in tlm morning, and he passed Alls Alai lie's room talking loudly to a hotel employee. It is possible that thK disturbed the murderer, who. however, still found time to cover the corpse with clothes and a mosquito curtain. The At toriiey-Ceneral has ordered the aii iliti'Ui ot i lie p.iliee eonlrol over All- Kill'll!, who is voluntarily proceeding to Batavia with a view to requesting the Al l ol ney-Ceiiera I to give evidence that lie i- not guilty of the mm der of Al r- Al actio. KIRTDN KXDNKRATER. SYDNEY. September 27. Mr Kirt'in has cabled t" his lather staling that In- has heiqi absolutely exonerated and is sailing by the tirst a \ a liable q-a Kiel .