Her Money Intact

NZ Truth, Issue 1196, 1 November 1928, Page 7

Her Money Intact

However, Elsie's movements seemed strange to him when he reviewed them the next morning. They were not an afterthought.

The dog, which is kept chained not many paces from the back door, was not heard to bark that evening. Bayly thought he would have heard it had it done so — and it might have barked had there been a stranger around. ' ■

Bayly admitted that it. did not look as if a stranger had been around.

Whether the 'car could have left without being heard was answered by the fact that when Detective-sergeant Kelly had been there to see him, he had driven it past ' the billiard-room from the shed, as it would have travelled that night. ~ ■

It was not audible, though he admitted that on this occasion the rain was dripping from the roof. ' . ' The car would pass within about a hundred feet of the western side of the billiard-room on. a line almost parallel, then turn sharply west to the road.

It should be mentioned that the cartshed is about 100 yards — not feet — from the back of the house to the south-west. . - '

There was nothing peculiar about the girl's • conduct ' that her .uncle had noticed , on, the previous; Saturday or Sunday. On the Sunday she had gone to church with her aunt. s < ■ '

Not one single article of. Elsie's clothing. or any of her private possessions was missing; she had a bankbook, with a few pouj:ds to her credit, which she had not taken, while . her aunt owed her some money for wages. She had not asked for this.