Unhappy Feature

NZ Truth, Issue 1306, 22 December 1930, Page 5

Unhappy Feature

might find, for it an entirely reasonable solution. Psychologists can produce instance after instance tp prove their contention that a man can be driven by jealousy to deeds ■which bear- every resemblance to those of a madman. This theory the detectives cannot disregard. Nor are they disregarding it. With them, the feeling 'that some person who may have loved Molly Dean and lost - her, is responsible for the murder • is just as strong. as the belief that the crime may have been committed by the sex pervert -who Ie said to have committed so many assaults' m the St. Kilda and Elwood districts recently. An unhappy feature" of the whole affair is that Molly Dean went to her death- at a. time when there was a strained feeling existing between her and her nearest relatives. For her daughter's aims and aspirations towards Life and Art, Mrs. Dean had no sympathy -whatever. She would have preferred to see Mary married to some. v suitor, of steady habits and fixed inclinations. '"'" ~.~ Mary had been m the habit of remaining away from home for various periods. ... She did not take her people into her confidence, and even her mother did not know where she had spent the Wednesday night, preceding her death.