THE OAMARU TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1918, Page 5

THE OAMARU TRAGEDY.

MURDERER NOT Tffsmfrwg^'-SS By Telegraph,—Press a - Oamaru, April ]^|l§j Assisted by police reinforeemtio#. Dunedin, under Superintendent the local police carried out a ekee uZua of the dense gorse and thick the Kakanui riverbed and the nmw3.i ing district. The country roads -aWf* farm buildings have been thoioasfflwi searched, but no clue has bean Late this afternoon the seapAew (Mm the thick undergrowth in the vtefalwSjl hut no sign of the murderer luwlSp^

George Burke, who was fatally-Jill wan 33 years of age and the ymmgrtktif of the late Coleman Burke, of Dmnffii&i , l e<^ Bed Was tendill g a farm brothers were away at the war. ■ fatal bullet pierced Burke's right wa'. entered his breast and lacerated a hn®j It practically severed the vena cam and passed out of the bodythanaA fhtf spinal colnmn. Bnrke staawtrfto «ta an<i died almost immediately * . The condition of Miss She has a bullet wound in the was hit in the arms. . Mrs Baanbury, a widowed of d#£ ceased, is not dangerously inquest opens to-morow.

NO NEW DEVELOPMEBFJg. '

•k T , Oamaru, teat WfjMM JNo new developments had timspfAmfi connection with the shoo6nj? tracedr n! Gemmell's Crossing up to one o\dwk, % large posse of police are searching: .&■ the perpetrator, but ham not fSias trace of him. Reports hare beaTcm® that the fugitive has been seen at ous places distant from the scene tragedy, but investigation provti tbtK to be unfounded. .T: Miss Burke, one of the lies m a precarious condition. -Ji Mr. Bartholomew, SJH, opened on fa quest this morning on Burke's body fad after evidence of identification haX'&Si given, tho uMjuest was