JUNGLE CHASE
PURSUIT OF MURDERERS \ IN MALAYA. HOPES OF AN EARLY CAPTURE. (Recd This Day, 10 a.m.) SINGAPORE, July 3. The police anticipate the arrest of the murderers of Mr Dunsford within forty-eight hours. The gang have retreated to the densest part of the jungle before the police, who have picketed the area concerned on all sides. A Singapore message on June 25 reported’that a New Zealander, Mr F. W. G. Dunsford, owner of the Tersang Gold Mines in Pahang State, was kil- | led by Chinese robbers who decamped with gold amalgam valued at £1,250. Mr Dunsford, according to the British United Press correspondent, was attacked with a shotgun and native knives. An extensive jungle hunt was started after the murderers. Mr'Dunsford, who was aged 58, was unmarried. He left New Zealand in 1908.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 7
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