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NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 7

iHinmnnuniimmmiMmnnimmmummimmimimumuiMimimmmummimmmiimimiim THIS" much has "Truth" discovered. That on the afternoon of Elsie "Walker's presumed death—three days, that'ls, before the discovery of the tragedy—a motor-car was seen standing In the lonely road for a considerable time at a spot not two.hundred yards from the place where the body was later found. <It has also been ascertained from a resident of Panmure that on the -night of Elsie Walker's death he was. sitting with a girl friend alongside the stone wall flanking the road —quite close to where the. body was found—-when a man ambled along. It was dark, but when he saw the couple he stopped dead m his tracks. The young man with the girl whistled out to the stranger, but there was no response, the mystery man disappearing m the direction of the muarry. , The stranger was described to •,'Truth" as a man of medium build, i wearing a cap and a dark .over-- ' coat. I The.two men who found the body — on the alarm of the discovery being given by a small boy—declared that there was a good deal of 'blood; about, 'one of the men going so far as.to say [that the hair of the dead girl was matted, with it. They also described "a nose which seemed to have been badly bruised, if not actually. broken, a swelling over one eye, and what seemed a clean cut under jthe chin and running down the neck." The position of the body, as it lay half-hidden m the bushes, indicated to at least one of the men that thegirl had "been thrown m." There.were no indications that she had crawled under the bushes to die. The attitude of repose one would expect if that had been the case, was conspicuous by its absence. One arm was fully extended m front of the head, while the other arm was close m. to the side of the body. *' Furthermore, there was ample evidence that the bushes under -which the body lay had been pressed down over,it-as to suggest a desire for concealment. : The spot where Elsie Walker was found is. m a direct line, about*loo yards from-, tile Panmure —St. John's road. The nearest house is about 700 yards away and there was no reason m the world why the girl —assuming • that she had been overcome with illness— uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin