THE CHRISTCHURCH MYSTERY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2856, 10 March 1925, Page 2

THE CHRISTCHURCH MYSTERY.

Christchurch, Yesterday. Tlie police do not appear to lie any nearer a solution of the Mount mystery. Anything which might subsequently be of value to the iuvesligation has been collected and cerlain specimens have been submitted to the analyst for report, though little importance is attached to the exhibits. Detectives have collected a bare handful of burned bones and ash, tmt again no great signi-lii-auee is ill lat hed to this exhibit, a ■ l he bone fragments are less than might lie collected from any person*- :i-!i i-i>nlainer. Extensive prolong of llie garden of Xo. 1(1 Beckl‘< rd Road, and the adjacent country lias yielded nothing and all that dragging opera I ions in ilu* Ileatlii ole river has proved is that the fiver is used largely as a dumping ground for dogs ami eats. The detee lives have exhausted every i-lmimel of invest iga I ion. They have don.* every! long possible to solve a I*- - 111irig' problem and their attitude* now is one of awaiting further devetojim, nis that may be expected in the natural process of tilings. When tin* officers went to (tie house on the day they wen* notified of (he woman'.-. disappearance, they found in one of tin* rooms a pair of sheets hearing stains. The sheets appeared !o have been imperfectly washed and were later forwarded to the (toveriiment analyst for examinei ion. MOUAT A RRESTED. DISCOVERED IX A BRICK KILN CHARCED WITH MURDER. Christchurch, Last Night. Frederick Peter Mount was discovered in a brick kiln at Cashmere Hills this afternoon and arrested on a charge of having murdered his wife. At an early hour this morning a driver from J. Brightling’s brick kiln saw Mount asleep in the quarry. He communicated with some of the ■ •(tier workmen, who in turn communicated with the police. About five minutes before tile detectives arrived Mount was seen to crawl to •he brick chamber of (ho kiln and lie was arrested there.

The men a! the kiln slated that | Mount arrived there at two o'clock I in tlie afternoon, lie walked around I and inspected the kiln and w.i> talk m a with ; hens w hen Chief IV e. e IV: •. :o e fade . -oi-v.i. ee VI

leetive-., Mount -.atvl lit- had been on ,i fortnight's holiday at ihuuaru. It e. stated that on the day of his wile-, dtsappearanee. February -l'i Mount pawned some of his wife’s tewellerv lie told the pawnbroker be intended to take a trip to Australia and then go to Afriea. He said he was disgusted with this country and was get ting out of it.