FALSE REPORT OF MURDER
Detectives’ Long Search In Heavy Rain (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 31. Detectives answered a false alarm about a murder last night and spent hours in the pouring rain in the Botanic Gardens at Kelburn. A man rang the C. 1.8. about 9 p.m., saying he had found the badly mutilated body of a naked woman in the gardens. He was told to stay on the spot and the police would meet him at the main gates. When the police arrived the man was not there. A squad of 15 detectives, assisted by members of the City Council parks and reserves department. trudged till 1 a.m. today about the 64-acre reserve. Other detectives off duty had been alerted. “There could have been violence in the gardens—if we had taught the chap who called us,” said one detective today.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29220, 2 June 1960, Page 18
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