DOUBLE MURDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21164, 22 April 1932, Page 9

DOUBLE MURDER.

END OF 'SEARCH.

POLICE MAKE AN ARREST.

DRAMATIC CAPTURE.

NO RESISTANCE OFFERED.

SUSPECT VERY TIRED.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

(Received April 21, 0.55 p.m.) SYDNEY. April 21

Detectives to-day arrested William Moxley, tho man wanted in connection with the murder of Miss Denzel and Mr. Frank Wilkinson. He was found this afternoon in French's Forest, near Manly, about eight miles north of Sydney. The arresting party consisted of three detectives and a police patrol-driver named Gill. French's Forest is a sparselysettled area composed of cliffs and rocky outcrops. Here and there are lonely poultry farms. It lies in the opposite direction to that where the search was carried on last week.

The police followed Moxley's bicycle tracks a mile into the bush and came upon him lying under a rocky shelter, his bicycle standing close by. As soon as he saw the police lie bounded to his feet with remarkable agility and made off into the bush.

Tho detectives were just aboftt to use their revolvers when Gill saw Moxley pass beneath another rock a short distance away. The patrol-driver took a flying leap and crashed on top of the fugitive with great force, bringing him to the ground.

The detectives arrived on the scene and Moxley submitted quietly to arrest. He told his captors he was very tired and had had little food or sleep. The nights had been cold. The last time he saw anybody was a week ago, when he called at Mr. Corbett's house at Bankstown and was warned off.

Moxley, who is alleged to have admitted his identity, had several days' growth of beard and looked haggard. He told the police it was " all up" with him when a local resident saw him pushing his bicycle into the bush and appeared to recognise him.

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

Moxlev's " swag" contained <1 quantity of old clothes, some provisions, several pairs of sandshoes and a few shillings. In his shelter was a newspaper of yesterday's date opened at the pago on which a reward of £2OO was recommended for his apprehension. Moxley was brought, into tho city quickly, charged with the double murder and hurried from the public gaze to tho cells.

Mr. Frank Bardsley Wilkinson, aged 26, compositor, of 11, Beresford Road, Homebush. left his home, 011 the evening of Tuesday, April 5, in an Alvis car with Miss Dorothy Den/.cl, aged 21, of Burwood. Mr. Wilkinson did not state whero h e was going. He had no spare clothing with him and little money, and gave tho impression that he would be away only 11 few hours. That, was the last occasion on which those who knew the young couple saw them alive. An Alvis car, which was thought to ho Wilkinson's, was seen in Strathfield on tho following morning and the theory of foul play gaining, the police centred then' investigations on the trail of the car. That, night the car was found, dismantled, and without its number-plate, in a garage in Park Avenue, Ashfield. Large squads of police then commenced a systematic search of bush and scrub lands in the surrounding districts, reports having been received that the car had been in the bush. A further clue was the discovery in the abandoned car of a rug that, had been torn into strips. Some of the pieces were missing. It, was established that, the man who took tho car to the. Ashfield garage was not Wilkinson.

All alone tlio parents of Mr. Wilkinson ;mrl Miss Dcnzol wore of the opinion that 1 hoii- children were oil her being hold prisoners or had been killed. Even when the reports seemed to suggest, an elopement they held to their original conviction of foid plav. They .scouted the suggestion of a romance, believing that they would have, been told if anything of that nature had occurred. Mr. Wilkinson, an industrious young man, had a largo circle of friends and it was not, unusual fur him to fake several girls in turn for drives in his car, the friendships being purely on a piatonic basis. Tie was very attached to his parents and seldom went out, more than one evening a week. Tlis father, Mr. Alexander Wilkinson, is an auctioneer and valuator with businesses in Wyong and Gosford. He had offered a substantial reward (o any person supplying information that wmild lead to the discovery, dead or alive, of his son and Miss Donzel.

The parents of the girl are old Windsor identities. Miss Denzcl is stated to have gone out but. little. She. was described ,i s n Krunofto of very powerful build. She met Mr. Wilkinson only occasionally. For two years she was employed ns a relief telephonist, at the General Post Office, Sydney, and later obtained a position as a nursemaid in Burwood. The bndv of Mr. Wilkinson was found on April 12 near an old Herman internment camp at Liverpool, 20 miles south of Sydney and next, day the body of the girl also was discovered a mile or so away. T>oth had been murdered and partially buried in scrub.