DOUBLE MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6840, 22 April 1932, Page 7

DOUBLE MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED

Dived into Bush At Sight of Police very tired and hungry United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Thursday, 9.0 p.m. SYDNEY, April 21. William Moxley, wanted in connection with the murder of the girl Dorothy Denzel and her friend Wilkinson, was arrested by detectives this afternoon at French’s Forest, near Manly. Three detectives and a police patrol driver arrested Moxloy in dense scrub eight miles north of Sydney. French’s Forest is a sparsely settled area composed of cliffs with rocky outcrops and here and there a lonely poultry farm. It is in the very opposite direction from where the search was carried on last week.

How the police learned that Moxloy Avas at French’s Forest is not yet explained. They followed his bicycle tracks a mile into the bush and came upon him lying under a rocky shelter with his bicycle standing ready. As soon as ho saAV the police he bounded to his feet with remarkable agility and made off into the bush, ■momentarily disappearing. The detectives were just about to use their revolvers when the police driver, Gill, suav him pass beneath mother rock a short distance aAvay. Gill took a flying leap and crashed on top of Moxloy with great force, bringing him to the ground. Tho detectives arrived and Moxley submitted to arrest. Ho told his captors he was A'ery tired and had had little food or sleep. The nights were cold. Tho last time he saw anybody Avas a week ago when ho called at Corbett’s house in BankstoAvu and was Avarncd off.

Knew the Game Was Up Received Thursday, 10.30 p.m. SYDNEY, April 21. Moxley, Avho allegedly has admitted his identity, had several days’ growth of beard and looked haggard. He told tho police it was all up when a local resident saw him pushing his bicycle into tho bush and appeared to recognise him.

It now appears that tho man referred to actually gave the information to the police which culminated in tho speedy arrival of tho patrol car with detectives aboard.

Moxley’s SAvag contained a quantity of old clothes, somo provisions, several pairs of sand shoes and a few shillings, Avhile in his shelter Avas yesterday’s newspaper opened at the spot Avhere a reward of £2OO Avas recommended for his apprehension. Moxley Avas brought to the city, quickly charged, and hurried from the public gaze to tho cells.