SEARCH FOR STANLEY GRAHAM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1941, Page 6

SEARCH FOR STANLEY GRAHAM

Supposed Hiding Place Enclosed HEAVILY ARMED PARTIES WELL DUG IN CONDITION OF SEVENTH VICTIM SERIOUS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HOKITIKA, October 13. When darkness fell at Koiterangi tonight Stanley Graham was still not caught. He is thought to lie in tne bush not very far from his home, if he comes out tonight he will be met by a professional and amateur army, well dug in in deep sandbagged pits, with a combined firing power enough to stop an army—with Lewis guns, Tommy guns and other weapons. Early this morning shots were fired from machine-guns and Tommy guns and Verey lights were sent up when Territorials fired at what they thought was the figure of a man. Reports that there were answering shots from an automatic pistol might be true, but there were so many shots it is difficult to say and there are so many bullet-holes in the small group of buildings and surrounding fences and trees that it is hard to say which are fresh ones and which not. Graham possibly may be suffering too badly from the effects of his wounds to move now as he bad before, but no one would dare to take any risk on that. Meanwhile, as the search goes on, Graham’s seventh victim, Mr G. S. Ridley, is still seriously ill in the Westland Hospital. It is emphasised that his condition has been serious ever since he was admitted.