IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 8

IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL.

VICTIM OF WANGANUI MURDER

SYMPATHY FOR FAMILY.

POPULARITY ON FARM.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.^

WANGANUI, Sunday.

The route "to Aram oho cemetery was lined with people this afternoon when the funeral cortege of the late Miss Gladys Cromarty, the victim of Friday's tragedy, passed through the city. At the, graveside .about 500 people were in attendance, and sympathy for the bereaved family was very evident. The Rev. W. S. King, of the Presbyterian Church, conducted the burial service. The search for the weapon with which the deed was committed ended at 3 a.m. on Saturday when a black-handled chef's knife, on which there are stains believed to be those of human blood, ,was discovered in a cattle stop in the yard of the Wauganui Sash and Door Company, facing Tanpo Quay. The knife blade tapers from 1J inches at its greatest width, to a sharp point, and the edge is particularly keen. The whole blade is fiiu long. The accused man, Herbert Frederick Manley, has a complete set of culinary instruments, and the knife is believed to be one of the set. Mr. J. Lowe, head groomsman, employed at "Koatunui," Mr. G. M. Currie's stud farm at Maxwell, where accused was employed, stated to-day that during the two or three months the. accused and Miss Cromarty were engaged 'on the farm they were extremely popular. When Manley informed him that he was going to Wellington to work Mr. Lowe made every endeavour to get him to stay on at the farm.