A SYDNEY MYSTERY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 May 1927, Page 5

A SYDNEY MYSTERY.

POLICE HAVE DIFFICULTY IN FINDING CLUES.

SY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGIII SYDNEY, May 11. The police are finding great difficulty in tracing clues in connection with the murdered man, George Walker. It was known that he brought considerable luggage from New Zealand, but all efforts to trace it have failed. The mystery of bank books in different names is also unsolved. They understand that Walker made a trip specially from New Zealand to marry Miss Hammill, and to take her back to the Dominion. He had not bought a ring and, when shot, had a jeweller’s card with the sizes of rings marked upon it. It is thought that he met the girl on the fatal night specially to make arrangements for the wedding. She was to have 'left that day with a party of friends for a trip to the ' south coast, but Walker called unexpectedly, «nd she altered her plans and spent the evening with him.

George Walker, aged 27, and Thelma Hammill, aged 18, were shot dead outside the latter’s home at Ashfield, after returning from the pictures, stated a Svdney cable on April 26. The fata] shots were fired by William Gordon Puller, aged 24, of Croydon, who afterwards fatally wounded himself. Walker was a cook, and had a ticket for the steamer Moeraki in his oocket. In fuller’s possession was a New Zealand passport, also a nhotograoh of himself in a marine officer’s uniform. The girl’s parents stated that she and Fuller had recentlv quarrelled. Ten.lousy is believed to have been the motive- for the crime.