CONTINUED ON WEST COAST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1941, Page 6

CONTINUED ON WEST COAST

Graham Still at Large BUT BELIEVED TO BE WOUNDED ARMY AND AIR FORCE CO-OPERATION WITH POLICE (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HOKITIKA, October 12. Since he began his chain of killings, Stanley Graham has not missed one day without coming down for further shooting, and as darkness fell tonight there were complete preparations to receive him.should he come back again to his house. He will meet, if he comes as he did this morning, with machine-guns, searchlights and every possible resistance. The most startling development of the weekend was another pitched battle this morning just before dawn, in which Graham narrowly missed shooting another man and is believed himself to have been wounded. Should he be killed in another fighttonight it will probably not be known before dawn, because the orders in Koiterangi tonight are that every man must stay at his post till daybreak. There will be no ntovements at all after dark. Some of the men in the vigil will be having their fifth night of waiting for a killer who has shot so far at nine men, killed six and wounded one. lie may be wounded, but he is certainly still able to move about, since he escaped again in the dark hours just before dawn. It was eerie at Koiterangi today, with everyone there in full knowledge that in the bush not far away was Graham, perhaps sleeping, perhaps with his rifle trained on or near his home. Army and Air Force co-operation with police and Home Guard is now working fully, but the essential fact is that in a five-day man-hunt Graham is still alive and more dangerous than ever. A feature today was the forbidding by the police of giving any information to reporters and permission was also withheld to take newspaper photographs.