MAN-HUNT ENDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1932, Page 8

MAN-HUNT ENDS.

SUSPECT ARRESTED.

SHOCKING CRIME ALLEGED

ACCUSED FOUND IN SCRUB,

HAD CROSSED HARBOUR BRIDGE,

(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, April 22,

After intensive search the New South Wales police yesterday arrested William Cyril Moxley, the man for whom ail extraordinarily keen search has been made, and Charged him with tlio murder of Miss Dorothy Denzel and Mr. Frank Wilkinson at Moorebank, near Liverpool. He made a desperate attempt.to escape after he knew the police had seen him.

Police surrounded the gully in which Moxley wa-s hiding, and, after a short chase, closed with him and overpowered and handcuffed him. lie told the police that he had ridden through the city on a bicycle and had crossed the Harbour Bridge after having paid the toll.

Watched By Young Man. Matron Burton, of the Dalwood Babies' Honle, French's Forest Road, Balgowlah, stated that a young man knockcd at the door about 10 minutes before noon and asked if ho could use tlio telephone to communicate with the Manly police. He thought he had seen the suspect. After some delay the Manly police station was spoken to, and the man told the police that the suspect had a black beard of a couple of weeks' growth. He was informed that the suspect's beard would be of a light colour, but he replied that he thought it would bo well for the police to investigate, and he arranged to meet tlio police car about 300 yards from the Dalwood gates. Later he went off with the police to show them the whereabouts of the suspect. The young man told Matron Burton that he had first noticed the man, who was sitting down, clad only in trousers, with his shirt drying on a rock a little way off the road, and later he saw him riding slowly along the road on a bicycle, to the front of which was tied a dirtylooking stigar bag. He averted his face when closer scrutiny was attempted, and looked back frequently to see if he was being followed. The young man hid behind a tree and watched the cyclist ride into the scrub. He then ran to the DahvOod Home and arrived there breathless with his story. Police action quickly followed. Detectives Tassell and Newton and Constable Gill were sent to the scene in a fast police car. Accompanied by the informant, they drove along French's Forest Road to where the man had been seen pushing a bicycle down a narrow track into the heavy undergrowth overlooking Bantry Bay. They left their car about half a milo from the spot where the suspect had been seen, in order that the man sought might not bo alarmed by the noise of an approaching car. Availing themselves of every shelter, the police slowly approached, Thore were bicycle tracks leading down towards rugged gullies that overlook Middle Harbour. The • locality^ip covered with heavy .undertaJUrtreeSj.and tlie numerous Hocliidetf' caves ? ;!;and rocky depressions could form an ideal hiding place. Drying His Shirt. Rounding a huge boulder, tlie police noticed a shirt and a singlet spread over the undergrowth, drying in the noonday Bun. A wheel of a bicycle projected from.behind another boulder. The three police cautiously approached the bicycle, with their revolvers drawn. On the far side of the rock a man was lying full length on his back, dozing in the heat. Suddenly a twig snapped. The man leapt to his feet, saw the police, and fled down the rock-strewn hillside. The police were hot on his licels. "Stop," Constable Newton shouted. "We want you. Stop, or I'll shoot."

The man leapt down a gully about Bft deep, struck a rock, and stumbled and fell. Gill and Newton were behind him. Constable Gill jumped from the overhanging rock down on to Moxley, who was scrambling to his feet. In his wild plunge the constable struck his chin on the rock, hurt a wrist, and badly bruised a thigh. He pitched heavily on the wanted man, knocking him down. Moxley struggled desperately for a few moments. Then the other police arrived, and he quietly submitted to arrest. He was immediately handcuffed, and was then escorted back to the police car. "I knew I was done when I saw that that man had noticed me," he is alleged to have said on the way to the pofice station. lam glad it is all over. It was too cold to sleep at night. I'd like you to return the bicycle to a man at Earl wood, where I took it."

Gaunt and Tired. The arrested man was gaunt and tired after his long exposure. His face was covered with severaladays' growth of beard. The hair was about an inch long. He had had plenty of food during his flight from the police, he said. In a bag found in. the gully were several pairs of sandshoes, shirts, and other clothing. He had some bread and a tin of jam with him, and several shillings in his pockets. His bedraggled clothing indicated that he had passed through very rough country in eluding the police.

The police believe that the man left the Bankstown area last Friday, a day after a shot had been fired at him. Apparently he slunk through the scrub at night until he reached Earl Wood, where he obtained the bicycle. He nonchalantly rode through Sydney up to the bridge, where he paid the toll and crossed over to the northern side of the harbour..

Two of the arrested man's fingers were badly cut. He had evidently tried to treat them, but the wounds were in danger of becoming septic. The news that Moxlev had been arrested spread rapidly, and by the time the police ear arrived with him at the Central Police Station, a large crowd had congregated. After the car entered the police yard, the huge iron gates were clanged together. Moxley was taken into the detective office, where he was provided with a large meal, which he devoured ravenously, and his interrogation was commenced.

Suspect's Story. According to the story he told the police, Moxley visited picture shows at Mosman during the week, and actually saw pictures of himself upon the screen, as being the man' wanted with regard to the murders. After leaving the theatres he bought provisions at various shops in

the district. On Wednesday night he bought some antiseptic for his wounded hand at a chemist's shop in Mosman. Later he procured some car grease, and rubbed it into his beard to change its colour, _ I