THE AUCKLAND MURDER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10962, 26 July 1921, Page 5

THE AUCKLAND MURDER

SHROUDED IN MYSTERY POLICE OFFICIALS BUSY, BUT RETICENT. THE SEARCH FOR A MOTIVE. The Grey Lynn murder case is still baffling the police (writes the "“Times” Auckland special correspondent); so fax no solution has been tound. The details have been telegraphed to you by the Press Association, and when one mentally recapitulates the incidents associated with this mysterious crime not a single one throws any light upon the gruesome affair. It is now eight days since the dead body of the young man Jew was found on the slope of the Arch Hall gully, just off Great North road, at Grey Lynn, and despite incessant inquiry work by' the police no arrest has been made. Naturally those engaged in the investigation are reticent at the present stage, but it seems certain that although they have greatly narrowed the scope of thp inquiry by elimination, they havo hot reached a stage likely to lead to definite action against any person. The position at present appears to be that a few minutes before 8 p.m. on the Saturday, on a. mild and moderately dear moonlight night, young Jew took leave of a companion near the old tram terminus at r Grey Lynn, and was not seen or recognised again until 11.20 a.m. the following morning, when his dead body was found on a sharp dip at the back of a vacant section within a stone’s-throw of where he had been last seen alive.

When, how, or why he came to be at that particular place apparently cannot bo explained by any of his regular-com-panions, who have themselves accounted for all their movements on Saturday evening, both in relation to young Jew, and afterwards. •’ The one thing that seems certain about the affair is that his presence at the spot was unpremeditated.