THE GREYMOUTH TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1917, Page 4

THE GREYMOUTH TRAGEDY.

NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. By Telegraph.—Prom Association. (Jreymouth, Nov. 10. There are no fresh developments with respect to the highway robbery, The police are very reticent, and to far as the public can judge have no definite clue to the identity or whereabouts of the murderer. Parties of police and miner* are again scouring the country to-d»y. The condition of Hull is still critical. The amount of money stolen including pay of both State mines. Two men were arrested yesterday and to-day were charged with vagrancy. Detective Ward said they'were arrested on the Kunanga Road shortly after the tragedy, and unsatisfactory answers to the police questions tyd to ; their arrest. There being no further evidence against them both were discharged.

NO ARREST MADE. CULPRIT CAN BE IDENTIFIED. Greymouth, Last Night. No arrest has yet been made in con* neetion with the highway robbery murder. The whole district hat been roused, and the bush is being seßfehed diligently. Suspicion points to a man who camped in an empty cottage for a fortnight near the scene of the tragedy He waß evidently ah expert criminal, and on being accosted by the owner of the premises at dusk one evening he stated that he had only pulled in there out of the rain, and was eventually proceeding to Rewanui. The owner replied: "AU right, make yourself comfortable." Chaff was scattered over the floor, and ferns were spread everywhere, supposedly to hide" foot marks. A sheet of iron had been nailed up to each window, and before leaving the cottage the man e1o«H up all the tins and refuse, presumably to give no clue with finger prints. If this man is captured, his identity can be proved, although he never made himself known. He accosted a little girl on the way to school on the morning of the tragedy, and told her to hurry for her life. Hall is still in a precarious state. It is supposed his spine is affected. James is not so well, the doctors' being of opinion that there is another bullet stiff in him. At the funeral of John Coulthard, ,today, the whole district was represented. It is stilted now that no arrest will be likely for some little while, or until the man is driven out of the bush.