EARLY ARREST NOW POSSIBILITY IN MOA CREEK MURDER CASE

Grey River Argus, 6 October 1949, Page 3

EARLY ARREST NOW POSSIBILITY IN MOA CREEK MURDER CASE

P.A. DUNEDIN, October 5. When asked to-day if there was any likelihood of an arrest in the Moa Creek murder case within the next day or two, Inspector A. G. McHugh, who is now in charge of the inquiry, replied: “Maybe!”

A large police posse is combing Moa Creek district for clues to the identity of the killer with a tomahawk or similar weapon, who brutally murdered William Fraser Mclntosh in the woolshed on his property a week ago. Two pathologists, Professor E. F. d’Ath and Dr. W. S. Alexander, and a police photographer, left Dunedin this morning for Moa Creek, Central Otago, where just a week ago William Fraser Mclntosh, a, 63-year-old farmer was found brutally murdered in his own woolshed 50 yards from Lie farm homestead.

No reason was given for a hurried visit to the scene of the crim e to-day by two pathologists. Dr E. F. d’Ath (Professor of Pathology at the University of Otago), and his assistant, Dr W. S. Alexander.. They left Dunedin yesterday morning by car, in company with Police Superintendent J. Mclntyre, and the police photographer, and, after spending some hours at the Mclntosh homestead, left again for Dunedin. No weapon has yet been found. A report by Dr. Alexander on his examination of the body on the day following the crime has not been made available.

The police are now searching for a man who called at the Mclntosh homestead on the afternoon of the murder.