EMBARRASSING!

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

EMBARRASSING!

H '■' ' ■ = I MAGISTRATE HUNT: What | I " l have you got to say? | | Defendant: Well, your wor- | | ship, I'm financially embar- | = rassed. | | S.M.:' Bo's your wife, by the | 1 look of things. . ? = 3 ■ . . ...... — iiiiiiiiiiiiinniiiiii muni iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiniimiimiiiiimiiiimimiiiiiS

wastes of Panmure, no trace of the_ murdered girl. -has" been found. Thosa last twelve hours or so-; of '. her life would seem' to be a closed boole, : and only the hand of; fate is- left to bring her slayer to justice. < . '" Nemesis has before to-day brought evil men ta the doek,rbut ; there is not; a^ays that alrn'oßt. ; uniquev elernent^of ;. -secrecy^, or si I--- ;; ence, ;.ta; ' cpnfusV^ the sleuths of* vengekncer an^ the sfeuth> are not often so • i di\aiory m getting on the .' trail. v- .. ':^ "■'"'- -' ; -'U-- • -• '..;-- ■ ' ... Usually, when people, are missing from their homes for 24' hours or more, the press is notified, ana a hue and. cry raised, IWithin the 1 ' last couple of; weeks this was done m the case of a, man t> named Whitney before, he had disappeared 36 hours. Whitney was a well-known business man of Auckland,, and his dead body was eventually found on Rangitoto. \ .- Yet m the case of a young -girl, : Elsie Walker, who was missing, and untraced for four days, her peculiar disappearance remained unnotlfied.; Not one word had been said, of it,: though the police Knew that she was missing from Frank ' Bayly's farm on the Tuesday prior to her lifeless bodybeing found hidden in' the scrub. -■"■ It •is for ' the police to explain ' this remarkable reticence, while 1 ' the vpublic can draw one of two inferences from the faqtr— eithex";;they ; hjad been-^ requested \\by interested parties to jjgep her disappearance secrejt, m ther&ope Of avoiding a s«ia^idal,or;they. had been most negligent 'in' their djatyv „7 The public' are entitled'% draw .'tfieir own conclusions; but whatever opinion they may arrive at/it is not reassuring to their peace of mind that this silence should have been observed. - ; -' -