TAXI-CAB MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 252, 25 October 1933, Page 7

TAXI-CAB MURDER.

POLICE AT DEAD END. STILL NO DEFINITE CLUE. VAST AMOUNT OF WORK DONE The murder of James Hunter Blair, taxi-driver, in King's Road, Mount Roskill, on the morning of Sunday, October 15, a .crime which deeply stirred the public, is still unsolved. No definite Clues have been picked up and so far the police are at a dead end. From the outset the police were set a most difficult task. No weapon was left behind by the murderer, and in this case the proverbial shirt or coat button and even a single piece of human hair was absent. What is more important from the police point of view, 110 motive could be found to explain the strange and dastardly crime. The victim was a man of good character and kindly dieposition, so the police inquiries went to show. As far as is known, he had no enemies. Such facte as have been revealed during the investigations of the detectives handling the matter tend to make the elucidation of the mystery the liiore difficult. A tremendous amount of work has been carried out by the band of tireless detectives and constables who have been working day and night since the murder was discovered. Questioned this morning, Superintendent S. Till, in charge of the Auckland district, stated that over 1500 persons had been interviewed and over 100 statements, many of them covering several sides of foolscap, taken. About 300 boardinghouses and apartment houses had been visited and the proprietors and inmates questioned in the hope that some clue might be obtained. In addition, 80 hotels in the Auckland district had also been visited., by the police to ascertain whether any person booked in early on the morning of October 15. Yesterday and to-day circular letters inquiring whether anyone was seen in the vicinity at an early hour on the morning of the crime are being dispatched to all the licensed taxidrivers in Auckland, numbering over 400 men. From the above figures quoted it will thus be realised that the police' are. leaving no stone unturned in an effort to track down the murderer.