EXHAUSTIVE INQUIRIES IN MURDER MYSTERY
VICTIM AN UNDISCHARGED BANKRUPT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 2. Inquires show that Francis Roy Wilkins, the viotim of the murder and robbery on April 21, was an undischarged bankrupt. • He filed in bankruptcy in 1930. The police have questioned a number of persons known to them as having records for crimes of violence, and more than one so questioned has consulted his solicitor. There is no suggestion, however, that these inquiries have disclosed a suspect. Taxi drivers, who were on duty on the night of the murder, have been asked to report anything they saw which might have a connection with the case. Twelve detectives are engaged on the case, and it remains at a stage where loose threads are being sorted out. Other persons who had been closely qustioned are men who have sat in on gambling 'schools with Wilkins. He had been a well-known habitue of these schools for a long time. No search of the sea bed at Evans Bay was carried out to-day.
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Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 6
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171EXHAUSTIVE INQUIRIES IN MURDER MYSTERY Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 6
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