VEIL OF INVISIBILITY

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 7

VEIL OF INVISIBILITY

(From "N.Z. Truth V' Special Auckland Rep^esen^we). ... gl||||ll!lllllllll!llllll!llll!lllllllll!lllll!!!llllll!llll!lllllilll!llll!ll!ll!lllllllll!ll!!iiljlllllllllllllillllllllllin I Ten weeks ago the dead body of Elsie Walker was found 1 | half hidden m a clump of scrub at Pamnure. No doubt re- |[ I mains that she died as the result of a blow on the head, though § jjI it was announced officially by the police that her*death was 11! I due to natural causes. On that assumption practically nojat- 1 «; | tempt was made to trace the course of her journey, or to ascer- =1; I tain who her companion might have been* on that tragic motor g ;;. I ride. And still her murderer is at large, and there does not §| I seem to be any prospect of an arrest being made. g ' ?riI!ll!lll!ll!ll!]!llll!lll!IIIIUI!l!l!l!il!!l!!lilllM :

RUMORS have been m circulation j ; that a man and a girl, on ' the Tuesday before the discovery of Elsie's dead body, called at the house of a Mrs. Kay on the Mount Wellington highway, between/ Otahuhu and Panmure, and were given a meal. . It is also generally known that the dead girl had a meal of sorts some few hours before she' was killed. But inquiries made at . the house where the young man and girl called prove to the satisfaction of "Truth" that the strange pair- visited Mrs. Kay's home on the Tuesday after the dead body was found. Mrs. Kay has made most painstaking comparisons of the dates and details, and is quite satisfied that she has made no mistake. After the mysterious young couple left her house, having been provided with some breakfast, she remarked to neighbors upon the. unusual incident of being asked to provide a meal at such an early hour of the morning, to such an unique pair. - That line of investigation is therefore eliminated. . From the moment that Elsie Walker left her uncle's farmstead at Papamoa until her corpse was accidentally discovered at sPanmure four full days later, seemingly she was draped m a wonderful cloak of invisibility, for she was not seen during the whole of that two hundred mile journey. And up to the present her companion has evaded the police. Had the murder, or the abduction which preceded it, been planned by a master mind", it could not have been more cleverly carried out, while the unpalatable fact that the gravity of the case was ignored by the police gave the man who was responsible for the girl's death ample opportunity to escape detection. ' ■ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil

This singular inefficiency where the protectors of the public are concerned has excited much adverse criticism, which can 'hardly be wondered at, and. as time goes on, and nothing eventuates,' this natural concern increases rather than 'otherwise. Enquiries made this week at the office of Sub-inspector Hollis m Auckland produced no enlightenment whatever. He had nothing to say for pub--licationi or otherwise, except the bare fact that what was known would be made public at the inquest, but when the inqtieefc would take place lie was hot able to say, - : It certainly is extraordinary that ber tween those two gates, the one from Prank Bayly's farm to the last and tragic one leading to the scoria