HOUSE ENTERED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 6

HOUSE ENTERED

AND FOOD OBTAINED SIGNS OF WEST COAST FUGITIVE. APPARENTLY STILL FIT AND ACTIVE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HOKITIKA, October 17The latest clue to the activities of Stanley Graham was the overnight entry by a single person, who left a man s footprints, of the residence of Mr George Lindsay, sawmill worker, at Lake Arthur, a short distance away from the farm where only a day or two ago a yearling heifer was shot and portions of steak removed from the rump by a person thought to be the wanted man.

Graham, if it were he, could have eluded his pursuers by only about an hour and a half when he cut his way with an axe into the home. Searchers who arrived there at 7 a.m. found evidence that he had been there not long before them.

Food missing from the house includes two dozen eggs, a few biscuits, an apple, and about a quarter of a pound of tea. Mr Lindsay was absent from his home because the sawmill nearby has been closed since the first shootings at Koiterangi. Evidence of 'the presence of Graham in an area in the vicinity of Doughboy Hill has' heightened the hopes of the authorities that he will be captured within the next few days. It is apparent from Graham’s activity that he is still a comparatively fit and able man, hunting at night and lying low in his lair at all times possible throughout the day. CHECK-UP OF HUTS SCATTERED OVER WIDE DISTRICT. IN COURSE OF HUNT FOR GRAHAM. (By Telegranh—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The systematic check-up of huts in the Doughboy region was continued today in the Graham man hunt, but there was evidence to suggest that the police were prepared to wait for Graham to disclose his whereabouts, without themselves taking the initiative and running an almost certain risk of further bloodshed. Many of these huts are scattered over a wide district and are used by deer-stalkers as headquarters for expeditions in the bush. They are generally well stocked with provisions, bedding, ammunition and spare clothing, and perhaps would remain unoccupied for months at a time. A typical example of what the police are doing occurred yesterday afternoon, when a hut owned by Mr E. Shannon, on Doctor’s Creek, in the Hokitika Gorge, south of Koiterangi, was entered by a search party. Mr Shannon has been overseas for some months, but in the hut were found a .22 single shot rifle, fuse, gelignite, tea, tinned milk, sugar, flour, blankets, camp cookers and clothing of every description. This hut evidently had been unoccupied since last July.