THE AUCKLAND HORROR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 203, 1 October 1914, Page 10

THE AUCKLAND HORROR.

' . MURDERER STILL AT LARGE. •' CRIME OF A LUNATIC. * ' Press Association. " r AUCKLAND, October 1. The theory most favoured in official circles is that the Nelson Street murder was a crime that cannot be published. Viewing the circumstances from every point the authorities agree in believing that the deed was the act of a man insane, momentarily or otherwise. The perplexing point is that no trace ' of the murderer's movements can be discovered. . His hands and clothing must have been drenched in blood and he must have earned away some evidence of his crime. - > A medical man who is a recognised authority on mental cases expressed the opinion that the man who perpetrated the crime is a mafliac and not a man who became temporarily insane and attacked a woman" with demoniacal ferocity (hiring his moments of madness, but a man who is completely and obviou.sly insane. He does think it n case in which the perpetrator would immediately calm down quietly, leave his victim, and return to his ordinary -?* baunts in a normal state of mind. The leed seemed to be clearly that of a \ jriminal lunatic who was mad at the J ime and is still at iarge.