ARREST MADE
OLD MAN'S DEATH AT WAITOTARA (PA.) WANGANUI, August 6. Less than 36 hours after the start of widespread police inquiries and investigation, Detectives J. J. Murray (Wanganui) and T. W. Allsopp (Hawera) arrested a Maori In Patea this evening. He will be charged in the Magistrate’s Court at Patea tomorrow concerning the death of Arthur Harding Parkinson, aged 78, a storekeeper, of Waitotara, Accused is aged 27, married, and lives in the Waitotara district. Parkinson, who kept a general store at Waitotara, 20 miles north of Wanganui on the main Wanganui-Auckland via New Plymouth highway, was found dead in a passage at the back of his shop early on Tuesday morning. There were wounds in the head and neck. He had apparently been dead some hours. A bloodstained axe was found nearby, also a. mallet. The door of the safe in the office was open, and the keys could not be found. A large number of police went to Waitotara to investigate Parkinsons death. They were in charge of Inspector J. A. Dempsey, officer in charge of the Wanganui police district.'
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23401, 7 August 1941, Page 6
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