MOTORIST MURDERED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20767, 9 January 1931, Page 11

MOTORIST MURDERED.

CRIME ON LONELY MOOR

BRUTAL ATTACK ON WOMAN

FOUND BY BURNING CAR.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received Janunry 8. D.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jnn. 8,

Miss Evelyn Foster, aged 28 years, the daughter of a garage proprietor, was found dying not far from her blazing motor-car on a lonely moor near Otterburn, a few miles from the Scottish border, late on Tuesday night. Beforo dying in her father's arms Miss Foster described in whispers how she had been attacked. "I was on my way home," sho said, "when a stranger asked mo for a lift, saying ho had come from Scotland. I took him as far as Beisay when ho asked mo to turn back, which I did. At Kiikwelpington ho stunned mo with a blow on the head, threw me into the back of tho car, which ho set on fire, and pushed tho car over a stone bank. I remember being jolted across tho moor and crawling out of tho blazing car."

A bus driver saw the blaze and found Miss Foster terribly injured, with her clothes burned off her body. Throughout last evening special polico scoured tho desolate moorland in search of Miss Foster's assailant. It is manifest that sho made a stern struggle for lifo before being struck on the head. When she recovered consciousness siio crawled across the moor for threo hours, licking ice to quench her thirst, and lying on a frozen pond to allay the pain of her burns.

Otterburn, on the Rivor Rede, Northumberland, was the scene of the battle of Chevy Chase, 1388, described in the famous ballal. Kirkwelpington is a little village eight miles to the south-east of Otterburn.