MOA CREEK CASE

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25933, 13 October 1949, Page 4

MOA CREEK CASE

STATEMENT BY POLICE (New Zealand Press Association.) DUNEDIN. October 13. The police were anxious to interview any person or persons who travelled along the Poolburn-Moa Creek road Of the Poolburn-Moa Creek Hotel road in a motor vehicle, between the hours of 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on September 28. said Inspector A. G. McHugh, who is in charge of police investigations at Mots Creek, where William Fraser McIntosh was killed a fortnight ago. Superintendent J. Mclntyre said that so far no one had come forward to say that he had seen or had heard of the stranger that Mrs Mclntosh said she spoke with in the yard of her home on the afternoon her husband was killed in the woolshed. The police expected that they would to-morrow complete the long task of interviewing everyone in Ida Valley Inspector McHugh said to-night. Progress with the investigations could be considered satisfactory. There were no new developments. Residents of Ida Valley have been uneasy since the killing. When this was mentioned to Inspector McHugh he said there was no need for alarm. Twenty police are engaged on checking files and in continuing the search for the weapon.