NELSON STREET MURDER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15729, 2 October 1914, Page 7

NELSON STREET MURDER

CRIME STILL A MYSTERY, NO ARREST YET MADE. finer .Jay* have elapsed since, the body i-r France* Marshall was found in a pas-.-.wg.-v off Upjjer Nelson Street, under cir- < umstatitesi pointing to a murder of extraordinary brutality, but so far no arrest, has been made. I pp'r Nelson .Street is usually fairly quiet .it ten n'elcn in the c.enin-, the hour at. which it is considered •'' " mur<ler was committed. On the oven:i 7, in nuestinu, however, there was a inwirtc in St. James's Churrh, a few ' i ndred yards away, and many people ■ m.ny from -his gathering would pass '■■■■'- to the (~-eno of the -rime. his r'.j-!.v.tif to .-.me extent the reason why r. . cur appears to have noticed the mur''••ird tv,.man after she called at a shop r.-ar the Wellington Street corner, shortly '•'lor., t*n o'clock. It would also make r |-.>- hie ! ■■■'.• the murderer to slip awav urnotKed I here .-ccros little doubt that the wounds , "™ inflicted with a small pocket knife. I.vidcm-o on this point is strengthened by il.»- i're.-enee of a peculiar triangular gash r.iisetcd on the woman's forehead, caused ■•bvin« 6 |y l.y the knife haying partly ■ iO.M-d. •