WHAREKURI TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 20 May 1925, Page 5

WHAREKURI TRAGEDY

MYSTERY CLEAfciNG UF»

BODt Off HUDSON DISCOVERED.

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OAMAKU, 18th iiay.

The body; of Philip Hiidsbii (19), who disappeared after tlie Wliafekiiri tragedy four weeks.ago, was found this afternoon in the Waitaki River, nearly twenty uiites cibwn frbrii the scene of the tragedy. The body was taken to Kurow, where ali inquest will be lield. the iucjuest .'on tlie body of Olive Rutherford .will also lie re'^u!ne<i.

A warrant was issued fbr tHe arrest ot Hudson shortly after the discovery ot Olive Jean Rutherford, of. Dimediii, who was fistind it tlie foot of a, cliff aiibve Kurbw.pii tlie morning of 22hd April. li was apjiareiit' at tiiq time , that a iiidiokcar Jhad.gfjftg.,over ■ tlie cliff .at tlie sceijo fii ,_, the tiagedy; But whether ftidspii aW the. girl were in it has jibt yet been clearecl. up, and, probably, never will bi. Miss Rutherford was foiind. on a led&fe of tlie cliff seriously injured; subsequent-; ]y., dvuig .hi hospital,, but. no trace, of Hudsoii, was found; though tlie . police searched the countryside and dragged the. Waitald River. Telegraphic details of the tragedy were.as follow:—"At 7 o'clock on the morning of 22hd Aprli the car in question was seen by a passing motor-cyclist stopped bh the road, aiid the dcc'upaiits replied to a, (|Uery that it was all riglit. Half an lib'iir later another passer-by saw car marks leading bVer tile Bank, arid, on investigation; fdiiii'd the car badly smashed on tlie rocks 130 feet below. The girl was. .lying on a ledge 20 feet higher iip." Hudson was a. son of Mr. Arthur Hudson, biscuit maimfaeturer, of Dunediii. It ivas iaid that he was di-iyirig.to,.His brother's Nation in the back country, .and his disappearance was most mysterious, as the river flowed at least 40 fee) frbih where the car was found. ../Two .cartridges were found lieai; Hie Mena of tlib kecident, one by the girl's body; rind the other beside tlie wrecked car. A triii of bibod led down the hillside from the. girl's body ■ a'tid across iiife H^srb;ed ip ih'e rivei-. A. liiah's. Hat whs,fbiihd witli'holes in. tlie top which mißlit htive. been caused by a bullet. No rifle was fbuiid.