WOMAN FOUND DEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1078, 16 September 1930, Page 1

WOMAN FOUND DEAD

MAN ARRESTED AFTER SEARCH BY POLICE AFFAIR AT NEW PLYMOUTH IS pedal to THE SUN NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. The body of a married woman, Cora Alice Townsend, was found, in circumstances indicating murder, in a house at Fitzroy, a New Plymouth suburb, early this morning. She had been terribly cut about the throat with a sharp instrument, the exact nature of which is not at present known. The police made an early arrest and the suspect was brought before the court at New Plymouth this afternoon. Rumours of the tragedy were current in the town early this morning and confirmation of the story was given by the police who were called to a house in Sackville Street, Fitzroy. The first intimation the police received was a telephone call to Constable King, at Fitzroy, about 2.40 a.m. and he immediately communicated with his superior officers. Inspector Fraser and Detective Meiklejohn with Constables Antill and Butler went to the house where they found the woman dead. Dr. G. IT. Thomson was summoned, but his services were of no avail. The woman’s body was at once removed to the morgue and the police immediately began to search the locality and the lupin-covered foreshore nearby in quest of tlio suspected man. The out-stations were advised and the result was a smart piece of work in which Constable Lapouple. of Waitara, figured, when he arrested a suspect near Urenui, 20 miles north of Fitzroy. Police investigations revealed that tlio dead woman was not at her usual lodgings overnight. There was' no sign of a struggle in the room where she was found and no definite motive has been disclosed.