THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 2 October 1914, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

NO TRACE OF TUB MURDERER. THE WORK OF A (MANIAC. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, October 1. The theory most favored in official circles is that the N.uson street iiiurd;r w*» a crime that cannot be punished. Viewing the circumstances from every point, the authorities agree in believing , that the deed was the act of a man irsane momentarily or otherwise. The perplexing point is that no trace of the murderer's movements can be discovered. His hands and clothing must have, been drenched in blood, and he must have carried away some i videnoe of his crime. A radical man who is a recognised authority in mental eases expressed the opinion that the man who perpetrated the crime is a maniac, not a man who became temporarily insane and attacked the woman with demoniacal madness, but a man who is com: iplcteU and obviously insane. He does not think it a case in which the, perpetrator would immediat.lv calm down, quietly leave the victim, ami return to hie ordinary hnuiitn- in a normal state l of mind. The. deed seemed clearly that of a criminal lunatic who was mad at the time and is still at large.