BRUTAL MURDER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10956, 19 July 1921, Page 4

BRUTAL MURDER

THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY. AFFAIR STILL SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. Per Press Association. m AUCKLAND, July 18. Within Sr few minutes of the discovery of the body of the youth Francis Edward Jew, on a vacant section at Grey Lynn, Arch Hill, Superintendent Wright, Inspector Bales, and De-tective-Sergeants Cummings and Ward, with practically all the remaining members of the detective force and a considerable number of plain-clpthes policemen, arrived on the scene. A thorough search of the section was soon in progress on the spot where the body was discovered and on a slope overlooking Arch Hill. The gullly is covered with blackberry bushes. Many of these were cleared away, but no clue wais discovered. , Detective-Sergeant Cummings stated last evening that there was no doubt it was a case of murder, hut there was no suggestion that robbery was the motive, as the clothes were not disarranged in any way. There was a sum of money in'the pockets of the trousers. J. H. Jew, the deceased’s father, stated that he had not attached any importance to the fact that his son did not arrive home for tea on Saturday evening, for he frequently was in the habit of visiting the home of a friend. I-fc was thought he had gone there. This friend, however, informed the police that the deceased did not go to his house on Saturday evening, and that he had not seen him since shortly after the football match. The matter, meantime, is shrouded in mystery. Those who knew the deceased can offer ho suggestion or any reason why he should base been brutally battered to death. Later. There is no development in the murder case. A doctor’s opinion is that death was instantaneous, resulting from the first two blows. A post-mortem examination revealed internal bleeding, also that the' upper jaw was smashed and the right arm broken at the elbow.