THE ONEWHERO TRAGEDY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 35, 12 February 1915, Page 6

THE ONEWHERO TRAGEDY

Per Press iAssococation. Auckland/February 12. , The search for 1 Norman Reals, for whose arrest a warrant was issued to-day, on a charge of murdering his brother's wife and abducting her six weeks' old baby, was vigorously prosecuted in the Onewhero district today by a large force of police, settlers and Maoris. The searchers to-day found fresh footprints made by a barefooted man near the spot where last evening they discovered a man's boots and socks, and these were followed along the gully for a considerable distance, being eventually lost in the thick bush. The rough nature of the country is delaying somewhat the work of the searchers, but the latter believe they are hot on the trail, and i expect to find the suspected man at any time. ' The latter is a healthy j and hardened bushman, and m'ayelude his pursuers for some time, but he is without food or shelter, and it is expected that hunger will force him to show himself. Rain fell on the rrmges to-day, and the searchers had a most unpleasant time in the soakin'g bush. The search will be prosecuted to-morrow.