PICTON MURDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 8

PICTON MURDER

NEW AND SENSATION? L TURN SON OF VICTIM ARRESTED AND CHARGED. ON ARRIVING IN AUCKLAND BY EXPRESS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. There was a sensational turn to the Picton murder this morning when Douglas Alexander Armstrong, a son of the murdered man, was arrested as he stepped off the Limited express at 9.30 o’clock and immediately charged with the murder of his father. The arrest was made by Detective Turgis and Acting-Detectives Cromwell and Grace. WIDE NET CAST. ALL TRAVEL ROUTES WATCHED. AUCKLAND, This Day. All means of transports in New Zealand, by train, road, air and shipping, have been under close scrutiny since the discovery of the brutal murder. Full descriptions of the arrested man, Douglas Alexander Armstrong, had been circulated to all police stations and it was in the course of routine investigations that the detectives identified the wanted man this morning. The arrested man, who is described as an apprentice engineer, is 20 .years of age. He is tall and slim with fair hair.

A Wellington Press Association message states that the arrested man, Douglas Alexander Armstrong, who is about 20, is employed by the Railways Department. It is understood that he will be returned to Wellington by the Limited express tonight. As a result of inquiries made yesterday, a warrant was obtained for his arrest. The arrest was very smart work on the part of the Auckland Police, commented th<\ Commissioner of Police, Mr D. J. Cummings, this morning. It is believed the accused boarded the Limited last night at a station north of Wellington;