The Onewhere Murder.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 13 February 1915, Page 5

The Onewhere Murder.

'' "'■' ' ■■:' <<t ' A MADMAN'S CRIME . > % NORMAN" KEAL ; S INCRIMBf- ]~k ATING LETTERS. f J HAUNTS THE SCENE OF THE ' t CRIME. '(7<j By Telegraph—Per Press Association, * Aucteand, La3t Night, .'i Telegraphing from Onewhero, a Herald ' 5 representative reported that the soiv reader or capture is hourly expected )?• of the man wanted in connection with V* the murder of Mrs Edith Emnurtfceal* .;? "nd the abduction of Hier baby. Tliere is '"> now no longer any possible doubt that A the man in question is no other than Xor- ' J Plan Keals, the younger brother of toe ":' dead woman's husband. Conclusive eVi- j? dence of-the fact has now come into the'. -■&.' hands of the police in the form of tv» ■ 5 letters written and signed by Norma* ■•'.» -iveals. Last night small groups of la '"f wore distributed about to watch everr "'•• likely sipot -wiliic* a criminal migH " visit. ,Tn an old shanty, in'which Mr.' \ Leslie Keals and his brother NormiiH ?: lived, before the former's marriage, '« were stationed for the flight a constables ,-jji and three settlors. They liad with them I '/t a bulldog. '-, About midnight the door wa 3 open- 'v ei\ from the outside for a few inches,! ,'J and ,iust m the watchers had begun to calcu'ato upon their chances 9 ar» . ' resting the intruder, the bull-dog T>»r'-- - cd - Instantly the door banged to. . - 'S The man's subsequently movements * * were only ascertained '> t when tracks of bare footprints showed • *,} that Norman Keals, who is definitely I known to be without boots or soekt, ■< ff actually took th'c*risk of walking, or' ''screeping, to within a few yards of the '-'- •back of the house in which Mrs. Keale ■' / was murdered. Within the residence' ''3 .were several polico officers, while othew -'X were HXlyds. away at the side of the ' * house, watching the orchard. None V heard a round. The 'nislis was pltclk /,| darlr, and it was impossible to see six*! ~t"f yards ahead. . „ ', A PACKET OF LETTERS. ' '$ His object clearly was /to have * ' -■* packet of letters, which was picked up :S----in the rear of the premises by a con- ■*? stable soon after dayurcak. The actual -j contents of the letters are not available 'J but a Herald rejbrter was permitted to* i'i cursorily examine the package, and por- f; tions of what was, written there were "V read to him. It is clear that they were •]* indicted during Norman Keals' rcconfoc- -J eupancy of the whare, perhaps last Sun- /'$ day, tiie day before the murder. ' •'&

".MOURN MY LOSS." . '| The inscription .en tlie envelope was; 'M "To those who moui'n my loss." Around, ~* the edges a broad inked band had bcea „■ -vl made, giving the package a rough lifow, '„<|i ness to a mourner's envelope, the two '*s letters being enclosed. > One was addressed to tlie writer's brother, Leslie Ken lb, and the other to "% their parents. 'ij The letter to the dead woman's hna- '■ i band announced that the writer* Nor- ." £ man Reals, was in Hie old wliaro, aiM ne> y declared his intention of not leaving r* there again. I n the letter to his par- % ents occurred the sentence: "If I can- ■ ,\; not Uve here, no one wi'l stop me dying 'V?i here. I love the old place too well for '% thai." ''^ EVIDENCE OF RELIGIOUS MANIA. .' <% Sprawled in tlie margin and then over \i the rest of the letter, were evidences of '-'! religious mania, some nmtences and q. ' text being quoted, incldine the follow- \ -,% ing: "Hold the fort for 1 am coming." , 4 "Thy will be done." "As we forgive £? others, so will we be forgiven." The ett- ' 's! tire tone, of both letters, indicated "$ strongly a suicidal intent upon the part jj of the writer. In the writing of the J2 letters be had evidently bail lucid inter- ' ''« vals for he endorsed 'on the letter to ".i liis brother the following message, '' * roughly sprawled in pencil: "I cannot O realise tliat I !iav t > (W- ;,iis. Forgive ,; ■■■ inc. Put up the white flag at she' ' 'jj gate if you want, me to come in." " ■'« As soon as Sub-Inspector Mcllven'ey ' ~i perused the letters early this morning I].*'. ~~i caused a white flag to be flown in/front' '<k and at the rear of the Reals 1 residency /■js on the chance that the hunted man iK| might act upon the <i»i>al in the way % suggested in the penrilled. message. '■'■'s ViS