ELSIE WALKER CASE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20798, 17 August 1929, Page 14

ELSIE WALKER CASE.

AN IMPORTANT STEP. INQUEST LIKELY TO BE RE-OPENED. ; (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, August IC, ■ Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, at Auckland, who conducted the investigation into the death of Elsie Walker and returned.an- open verdict, la-day took an important step by recommending the reopening of the inquest. Mr Hunt said this morning he had sent a letter to Mr Meredith, Crown Prosecutor, at Auckland, who led the evidence at the inquest on behalf of the police. In this letter ho suggested to the Crown Prosecutor that" cither a prosecution for perjury should be. instituted against one of the witnesses at the inquest or that an application should be made to the Supreme Court for authority to reopen the inquest so that the evidence of Mrs Margaret Thomason and, her sister, Mrs Langdon, might be taken.

Dr Murray, ■ police surgeon at Auckland, who carried out the examinations on the body of Elsie "Walker, and also gave lengthy evidence at the inquest, is at present in England on a Jong vacation. It will be remembered that after the police inquiry, which' followed the inquest Dr Murray resigned his position as police surgeon. It was ascertained to-day that Dr [Murray has taken to England with him full particulars of the injuries suffered by Elsie Walker,- particularly concerning tlie bruise which he considered unusual. About this Dr Murray will hold discussions with eminent pathologists in London, including Sir Bernard Spilsbury, pathologist to the Home Office and a world authority.