BURWOOD CRIME

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1927, Page 5

BURWOOD CRIME

NO ARRESTS MADE SEARCH PARTIES ACTIVE (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 19. No arrest has yet been made for the murder of Gwendoline Scarff, who was found dead in the scrub at Burwood, on Wednesday afternoon. It is assumed that the murdex* took place that day, but it is stated that the police still seek information, as to where the girl spent Tuesday night. She left the hotel where she had been staying on Tuesday, and deposited her heavy luggage at the Tramway Depot, and apparently took with her a nightdress and toilet requisites to spend the night elsewhere. To-day a party of twenty police made a thorough search of the scrub at the scene of the murder, but without finding anything likely to help in the investigations. Occasionally, men have camped in the scrub for days or weeks, and the search was for traces of such people. The police, however, found none. In any case, the murderer’s weapon was a motor spanner, and general belief is that the murderer either had a motor car or had the use of one. *

VICTIM’S CHRISTCHURCH, June 20. Mystery still surrounds the Burwood murder. Many clues have been followed, but not one promises to give the desired result. There is reason to believe that while at the Federal Hotel the girl was not well supplied with money and that she only paid her bill on Tuesday after receiving assistance from someone. AUSTRALIAN CONFESSION. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) \ SYDNEY, June 20. The Commissioner of Police has received advice from Bathurst to. the effect that McPherson, arrested in connection with the death of Martha. Quin, has made a full confession. , LIEUTENANT CONDEMNED. GIBRALTAR, June 17. Lieut. Duffield was found guilty of shooting dead Colonel Fitzgerald, the jury rejecting his. plea of insanity, but recommending him to mercy. Duffield was sentenced to be hanged. Duffield was calm throughout, being the most composed man in Court. He bowed and smiled. Women present sobbed. Executions are rare in Gibraltar, the latest being in 1896. I BODY IN TRUNK. LONDON, June 17. The new evidence in the trunk murder case includes that of a bus conductor, who said a passenger boarded his bus on May 6 and tried to put a trunk on the platform. Witness helped to carry it upstairs. When the bus reached Victoria Station the passenger had gone. Robinson’s counsel appealed that the evidence did not justify his committal on a charge of murder. The cause of death was largely medical conjecture and speculation. The only actual version of the affair was given by Robinson himself.