FREDERICK MOUAT ARRESTED.

Shannon News, 10 March 1925, Page 2

FREDERICK MOUAT ARRESTED.

CHARGED WITH WIFE MURIDER. ACCUSED MAKES NO STATEMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Fredicrick Peter Mouat was discovered in a brick kiln at Cashmere Hills this afternoon and arrested on a charge of having murdered his wife. At an early hour this morning, a driver from J. Brightlihg’s brick kiln saw .Mouat asleep in the quarry. Tie communicated with some of the other workmen, who in turn communicated with the police. About five minutes before the detectives arrived Mouat was seen to crawl to tlic brick charm ber of the kiln and he was arrested there.

The men at the kiln stated that Mouat arrived there at two o’clock in the afternoon. He walked around and inspected the kiln and was talking with them when Chief Detective Gibson and detectives Eade and Bick/erdike arrived. j Detective Eade approached Mouat and said: “Good afternoon, Mr. Mount come ’outside.” Mouat surrendered himself without any resistance and made no statement. Detective Eade told him to cheer up and “not to look so downhearted on it.” In conversation with the men at the kiln before the arrival of the detectives, Mouat said he had been on a fortnight’s holiday at Oaraaru. It is stated that on the day of his wife’s disappearance, February 20, Mouat .pawned some of his wife’s and his own jewellery, he told the pawnbroker he intended to take a trip to Australia and then go to Africa. He said he was disgusted with thi* country and was getting out of it.