FIVE DAYS' HUNT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 428, 12 January 1933, Page 6

FIVE DAYS' HUNT

FIFTY THOUSAND POLICE CHASE ONE MAN London, Jan. 9. Scotland Yard has sent out a broadeast to the effect that Samuel Fnrnace is wanted in connection with the murder of Spatchett. The announcement follows a fivedays' hnnt for Furnase wherein 50,000 police throughout the country were engaged. A message last week'' stated that Samuel Furnace, master builder, had an office in a shed at Chalk Farm, oi? ihe outskirts of London. An alarm was given on Tuesday night that the shed was on fire, and in the ruins the firemen f ound the body of a man, who later was erroneously identified as Furnace. The first sensation occurred when a post-mortem examination by Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Home Ofiiee pathologist, reveale'4 three shots in the body. Now detectives have found that the dead man was not Furnace but Walter Spatchett, a young rent collector. The murder was carefully staged, ' a sheet of paper on the typewriter, which survived the fire, being manifestly intended to suggest that the victim was contemplating suicide. Furnace's • father-in-law positively identified the body, but Spatchett's father recognised a bank book and photographs which were found on the body as- belonging to hi§ son.