OTAKI AND PAPAKURA IN IT

NZ Truth, Issue 1187, 30 August 1928, Page 1

OTAKI AND PAPAKURA IN IT

see a dark, semi-clotted pool of blood, which had flowed from her wounds to the thick matting of pine needles on which lay her head. To the left of her body, and some eight or nine feet from the bole of the tree, was spread a large black and grey travelling rug, and behind the rug were Ellis' coat and vest, his collar and tie, and the girl's hat. There were no "bloodstains on the rug itself, clearly indicating that the tragedy could not have been enacted whilst they were sitting there. *

iit:iuiiiiiiiiiiuHiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii) its edge sharply whetted to razor keenness, lying m a deep bed. of pines, some eight or nine feet from where the poor girl's body was discovered. At first it' was thought that, maybe, the deed had been committed away from where the body was found, but a subsequent survey of the ground — between the pine tree and the place where the knife was embedded m the pine needles — went to prove that Ellis had first murdered the girl, then severed the arteries of his own throat and thrown the knife away from him. An inquest was held on the after-