ELSIE WALKER CASE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1929, Page 8

ELSIE WALKER CASE

INTEREST REVIVED,

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

AUCKLAND, Aug. 12

In connection with the E.sie Walker case, letters that were written to Mrs Frank Bayley (aunt of Elsie Walker) by Mrs Thomasen who was- formerly a neighbour of the Bayleys at Papamoa, arid who now resides in the Wanganui jxiver District, are published to-niglit;

The letters were handed to the police by the Bayley family’s solicitor at the request of William Bayley, who said that the letters were worrying his mother, and they should be referred to the police. The chief subject of the letters is the statement that “Bill” ivas on a cerain train at a particular time, and that lie was seen, both ])y the writer of the letters and by Mrs Langdon. It is stated that Mrs Bayley later received from Mrs Thomasen a telegram asking her to see her urgently, as “Truth” was seeing her next week. Mrs Bayley went to Wanganui, and by appointment, Mrs Thomasen met her at Foster’s Hotel,, about June 21st. By arrangement with Airs Bayley, detectives listened to the conversation in an adjoining room. \ The other woman. alleged by Airs Thomasen to have seen “Bill ’ Bayley in the train was interviewed by tho police, and it is stated she denied seeing him.