MAN APPREHENDED

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1932, Page 6

MAN APPREHENDED

MURDER AT HUTT.

AN UNEMPLOYED LABOURER.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)

WELLINGTON, April 16

Horace Frank Livermore, alias Johnson was arrested early this morning and was charged at the Police Court to-day with the murder of the child Vera Forster, aged four and a-halt years, at Upper Mutt Yesterday.

Oji the application of Sub-Inspector Ward, he was remanded till April 22. Livermore was detained soon after the discovery of the qhiid’s body Lust evening, and was charged with the murder at 2 a.in.

Me was brought to Wellington by detectives, and appeared in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr T. B. McNeil, S.M.

He is a Single man and was employed by Mr Forster as a labourer. He was living with the Forsters since September hist. Mr Forster kept a poultry farm, and is employed by Mr J. T. Benge. The murdered child is the youngest of four, there being another daughter and two sons. The body ot the child, with a wound on the back of the head, was found in a clump of scrub beyond Upper Hutt last evening. She had been missing all day. The body was discovered one hundred yards from her parents’ home. A piece of stout iron piping was found lying near the bodv.

The girl was the youngest of four children of James Valentine Forster, of Maori Bank, Upper Hutt. She had been. playing around the house during the morning, and her absence was not noticed by her parents until about noon. H*er parents, becoming anxious notified the police. A search party was organised and the aid of alaiut forty helpers enlisted. The locality is sparsely populated, the nearby hills being covered with dense scrub. Shortly before nine o’clock two youths noticed a splash of colour in the scrub. On investigation, they discovered the girl’s body. Lying near the dead girl was a piece of iron piping, about two feet in length, and almost an inch and n-lialf in thickness. It was stained with blood.

The case is said to-be unparalleled in the history of the district. The girl’s parents are natives of England and have resided in the district for the past eight years.