MR WHITELEY'S MURDER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8725, 28 January 1907, Page 2

MR WHITELEY'S MURDER .

Rayner’s Bad Resort!. . A Gass of Blackmaill J rets Association-—CopyrigJit. t’ON’lYiN, .t.lllU.’Uy It .trninspires Ihfit Jamynev, Iso is ; 20 yc.’U’s of Mg’Oj tv;\s lioni in wcclioci., his iiareuts licing rcspoclnble people. Tho police report I;mi llayner wan in impecunious circumstances and that tho case was one of blncirumil. ’ invner lias been operat( il on and is j-ecovering. lie was born at Teddmgton, and . lodged until recently at cheap longings, being in straitened wrcuni- ■ .stances. j ]fo liecaine engaged to a London . barmaid, though bo bad (icserted bis wife and two children who arc now IB lug at Lewdly. • Bavner was for some years cm- 1 jdoved as a cashier at Riga until be middcnlv left, embezzlement naiing, "been alleged against him. 1 Tbo Chronicle states that Hayner’s duller and W'hiteley were formerly personal friends, but the intimacy ended Giving to Bay ner sepr. threaten mg prosecute Air vV hileley for : slander.

Tlie jiolice surmise that the son ; tiempt to blackmail air AV hiteley •as based on the re-opening or tin Id incident.