ASHFIELD MURDER PUZZLES POLICE
H.Z. MAN’S FATAL TRIP WENT OVER TO CLAIM BRIDE Cable. — Press Association. —Copyright SYDNEY, Wednesday. The police are experiencing great difficulty in following up clues in connection with the murdered man Walker, who, with Miss Hammill, was •hot dead at Ashfield on April 25 by a man named William Gordon Fuller, who then killed himself. It was known that Walker brought * considerable amount of luggage from New r Zealand, but all efforts to trace it have failed. The mystery of the bank accounts Walker had opened in differ e nt names at different banks in Invercargill and Sydney is also unsolved. The police believe that Walker m ade the trip from New Zealand specially to marry Miss Hammill, and to take her back to the Dominion. He had not bought a ring, and '•'hen he was shot he had a Jeweller’s card in his possession, with sizes of rings marked upon . * 3 thought that he met the girl . tae tala l night specially to make r J“iKements for their wedding. Mtsa Hammill was to have left that tr Z w ith a party of friends for a call a tfle South Coast, but Walker h»r , unex Pectedly and she altered bin, p ans an d spent the evening with m —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 42, 12 May 1927, Page 1
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