AUCKLAND MURDER MYSTERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 5 October 1914, Page 2

AUCKLAND MURDER MYSTERY.

WORK OF A CRIMINAL LUNATIC By Telegraph.—Frees Association. Auckland, October 3. The theory most favored in official circles is that the Nelson street murder (in which the woman Frances Marshall was done to death) was a crime thai cannot be punished. Viewing the circumstances from every point, the authorities agree in believing that the deed was the act of a man insane, momentarily or otherwise. The perplexing point is that no trace of the murderer'a movements can be discovered. His hand* and clothing must have been drenched in blood; he must have carried away soma evidence of his crime.

A medical man who is a recognised authority in mental cases expressed the opinion that the man who perpetrated the crime is a maniac, not a man who had become temporarily in?ano and had attacked the woman with demoniacal ferocity during the moment of madness, but a man who is completely and obviously insane. lie docs not "think it is case in which the perpetrator would immediately calm down quietly,, leave tu« victim, and return to his ordinary haunt* in a normal state of mind. The deed seemed clearly that of a criminal lunatic, who was mad at the time and is still at large.