WHO TOOK THE GUN?

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 57, 8 March 1930, Page 11

WHO TOOK THE GUN?

PALMERSTON NORTH . MYSTERY. POLICE TTON-COMMITTAL. NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday. A non-committal attitude wa s adopted by the police when interviewed further concerning the discovery of the body of the late Mr. W. E. Price after he had died from the effects of a gunshot wound in circumstances which suggest either murder or suicide. The body, when found, was clothed in pyjamas, and was lying partially under the bed on a sheet and blanket. At first it was thought that death was due to "hemorrhage,, but a post-mortem examina-' tion disclosed that.it had resulted from a gunshot wound near the mouth. The gun which inflicted the wound has not been found. ' , . "We neither accept the murder nor the suicide theory until the full facts are established," Detective Quirke said. "However, the man who received the fatal wound was not likely to walk away with the gun." There might possibly, he said, be- further disclosures in a few days' time, but at present there was no evidence available to justify the police in arriving at a definite conclusion. The two sons of Mr. Price have stated that the family never had a gun in the house, and they do not believe that their father would take his own life.