AUSTRALIAN CRIME.
, HUNT FOR WANTED MAN. SYDNEY. April 18. During the week-end the hunt for the man wanted in connection with the murder of Frank ’Wilkinson and Dorothy Denzel at Liverpool was zealously continued, mounted troopers in private clothes assisting the foot police and private citizens. A section of the latter openly declare that they will lynch the man if they catch him. Police to-day missed their quarry by only half an hour in the scrublands of Dumbleton, an outer suburb. A local resident, Mr Edwin Robinson, who is acquainted with the wanted man, was crossing a paddock when the fugitive jumped up and disappeared in scrub some distance away. The police, who searched the whole of this area yesterday. were summoned, and inspected the spot, but without avail. Mr Robinson states that when he obtained a glimpse of the man he was lying under some undergrowth with his hands tucked under his head. MAN DETAINED. Received April 19. 1.10 p.m. SYDNEY, April 19. A man has been detained at Bathurst on suspicion of being connected with the Liverpool murders.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 118, 19 April 1932, Page 7
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180AUSTRALIAN CRIME. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 118, 19 April 1932, Page 7
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