NEW POLICE LINE OF INQUIRY

Grey River Argus, 9 November 1949, Page 3

NEW POLICE LINE OF INQUIRY

Foxton Tragedy FOXTON, November 8 Police investigations into the Mrs. Hall murder were stepped up yesterday. By night a large number of people had been interviewed and fingerprinted. Nothing further is to report. The funeral of the victim _ took place this morning after a service in

All Saints church. Lacking definite evidence as to the time when the victim was last seen alive, a police investigating, force to-day began a shop-to-shop_ and house-to-house canvas of Foxton in an effort to obtain information which may establish the approximate time when Emily Christiana, Hall, widow, aged 69 years, was murdered. The police are now inclining to the view that she was murdered on Thursday night, rather than sometime on Friday, as previously thought, and advantages to the murderer of escaping unnoticed from the house at night; lends weight to this theory. The police are not without certain important clues, but iij is deemed advisable not to disclose their nature at the presefit juncture.