ELSIE WALKER CASE REVIVED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3983, 13 August 1929, Page 2

ELSIE WALKER CASE REVIVED.

THE MOVEMENTS OF BILL BAYLY. Auckland, Last Night. In connection -with the Elsie Walker case, letters written to Mrs. Frank Bayly (aunt of Elsie Walker) by Mrs. Thomasen, who was formerly a neighbour of the Baylys at Papamoa and now resides in the Wanganui river district, are published to-night. 'The letters were handed to the police by the Bayly family’s solicitor, at the request of William Bayly, who said the letters were worrying his mother and should be referred to the police. The chief subject of the letters is a statement that “Bill” was on a certain train at a particular time and was seen both by the writer of the letters and a Mrs. Langdon. It is stated that Mrs. Bayly later eeeived firom Mrs. Thomasen, a telegram asking her to see -her urgently, as the newspaper Truth was seeing her next week. Mrs. Bayly went to Wanganui and by appointment, Mrs. Thomasen met her at Foster’s hotel on about June 21. By arrangement with Mrs. Bayly, detectives listened to the conversation in an adjoining, room. The other woman, who is alleged by Mrs Thomasen to have seen Bill Bayly in the train was interviewed by the police and it is stated she denied seeing him. "