MURDER MYSTERY.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1921, Page 4

MURDER MYSTERY.

THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY

NO DEVELOPMENTS. aETEOBIVES AT WORK. B? Telegraph. Preu Association Auckland, Last Night. There are no developments regarding the death of the young man Francis Edward Jew, w*ho was found dead on Sunday morning on a vacant section at Grey Lynn, Arch Hill, with the head badly shattered. The opinion of doctors is that death was instantaneous, resulting from the first two blows. The postmortem re-t vealed internal bleeding. The jaw was smashed and the right arm! broken at the elbow. Auckland, July 18. Within a few minutes Superintendent Wright, Inspector Eales, DetectiveSergeants Cummings and Ward, with practically all the remaining members of the detective force and a considerable number of plain clothes policemen arrived on the scene. A thorough search was soon in progress. The spot where the body was discovered and the slope overlooking Arch Hill gully is covered with blackberry bushes. Many of these were cleared away, but no clue was discovered. Detective-Sergeant Cummings stated last evening that no doubt it was a ease of murder, but there was no suggestion that robbery was the motive as the clothes were not disarranged ia any way. There was a sum of money in the pockets of the trousers. Mr. J. H. Jew, deceaaeus father, stated that he had not attached any importance tn the fact that his son did not arrive home for tea on Saturday evening, for he was frequently in the habit of visiting the home of a friend. ]t was thought he had gone there. This friend, however, informed the police that the deceased did not go to his house on Saturday evening and he had not seen liim since shortly after the football match. The matter meantime is shrouded in mystery. Those who knew deceased can offer no suggestion of any reason why he should have 'been brutally battered to death.