POVERTY BAY MURDER

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1944, Page 4

POVERTY BAY MURDER

Woman Found Dead P-A. GISBORNE. May 19 Battered about the head, and 'w th •Yl eat ™ r stra P ab °ut her neck and ! -ody, Mrs. Lois Rosamond Mill. ’39 was found under her bed at Bevhaven Station, 25 miles from Tok’omaru Bay late yesterday. When found by her husband, George M H v? lr . eadv dea d. and it is thought that life had been extinct for some hours. Two children, a boy aged 11 years, and a girl aged six, were playing outsiders if nothing had happened. Two other older children wore away at Gisborne. Half an hour after he returned to his house Mill went into a bedroom to get a towel, and then discovered the body. The head was badly battered apparently by some blunt weapon’ cind tightly drawn around the throat was a leather belt. Mill attempted artificial respiration, and telephoned the doctor and police. The doctor expressed the opinion that the assault must have occurred between 1 and 3 o clock in the afternoon, and death occurred some time before discovery Inspector D. A. Mac Lean w,th De-tective-Sergeant R. I-I. Waterson Detective Sneddon and Constable R. A 5 ! iTh’ arriV f d at Bevhaven Station at 11.45 p.m. from Gisborne. A search is being made by the police in the surrounding distr.ct and this morning they are expecting early developments. Up Near Beyhaven Station is th- property farmed by Jimmy M.ll a fam pus All Black half-back, who' is a brother of George Mill.