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NZ Truth, Issue 1207, 17 January 1929, Page 5

INDICTMENT OF POLICE CHIEFS THE charge made by this paper, that the senior officers of the Auckland Detective Branch had failed lamentably m their handling of the Elsie Walker case, especially m their assertion that the girl died from natural causes, has been to a very large extent confirmed by proceedings at the inquest. Improbable as it may" seem, the pathologist who was called m to examine the dead body at the morgue, where it lay without any clothing, was ho the girl's garments to pass; on to the bacteriological department until seventeen days later, n6twithstandi2l_ , that the bloodstains on the clothes were of vital importance. ' k, f W '■•■.-•. ■ - ■ •■■■'(.--,-.> '-''.. .-•■■( •■' : .■.■■':-■ ■- '. . ■ •-... '-■ Whatever may be said, the indictnieht -which this paper levelled at the police chiefs was not unwarranted.