The Interview

NZ Truth, Issue 1238, 22 August 1929, Page 7

The Interview

not, favorable to. the authorities concerned^ I "Truth," having received so ! much publicity m connection with the correspondence between Mrs. Thomasen and Mrs; Bayly, it is but right that the public sould know that no "Truth" representative, nobody on behalf of "Truth," and no *Truth 7 agent, has at any time, or anywhere, been m communication, or. correspondence with, or interviewed Mr. or Mrs. Thomasen at any time, until the interview at Raorikia on July 19. On that occasion, Mrs. Thomasen [ gave 'Truth" just so much information as she thought wise under the I circumstances, and considering she was ;so • far removed from her legal adiviser, Mr. H. O. Cooney. The only other member of the Brady, ' household at Papamoa spoken; to by /'Truth" 'prior to the interview with Mrs. . Thomasen at Raorikia, was Mrs. Langdon, and that :> was a very short while after the mysterious disappearance of Elsie Walker and the car from her uncle's farm< The representative of this paper on that occasion m October — it was late a f ternoon — spoke to Mrs. Langdon on the verandah of Mrs. Brady's house. He asked her if she had' heard the car, m which Elsie Walker presumably was driven away, pass the house on the night or early morning of Monday, October 1-2. Mrs. Langdon replied that a car went past .about 12.20 a.m. „.:..../---.- She thought, so. she . said; that it - Passed from the direction of the Bayly's home. The 'Truth" reporter noted her. reply down there and then. Weeks later, when the policethought fit to make any investigations, Mrs. Langdon had, left P.apa- . moa. The investigating officer, Detective- Sergeant Kelly, we believe, asked Mrs Thomasen if she had heard the car pass the house on the night of October 1. Her reply was in' the negative, but she said that she believed her sister, Mrs. Langdon had said that she had j heard a car which, m her opinion, came from the Bayly farm, pass along the track beside their house. ' We have yet to learn that .the police made any from Mrs. Lahg- , don at that time. Later, assuming their theory of Elsie Walker's drive and subsequent death : from exhaustion, the police apparently, ; ignored the possibility of the car having left the Bayly's at that hour, and preferred for, reasons not explained to say that the car departed between S and 9 p.m. ■-.',. "Truth" was ' entirely unaware untij [the statement was made m the daily t (.press by Messrs. Northcroft Lusk, ' j and Fawcett on behalf of the