SUPPOSED MURDER

Otago Witness, Issue 3514, 19 July 1921, Page 25

SUPPOSED MURDER

YOUTH’S BODY FOUND. A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. AUCKLAND, July 17. A case, the circumstances of which point to murder, is being investigated by the police. The body of a youth, almost 20 years of age, named Francis Edward Jew, was found about 11 o’clock this morning on a vacant section at Grey Lynn, Arch Hill, with Lis head badly battered. The section is covered with blackberry and bramble. The body was found in a track used as a short cut. The deceased’s father. (Mr John Henry Jew, is a carpenter residing at Grey Lynn, Arch Hill. A blood-stained paling wa« found near Jew’s body. There were two large wounds on the hack of the head, one just above the forehead, one just under the nose, and another just below the right ear, all indicating that he had been struck by a paling. The fact that an overcoat was found across his knees suggests that there had been no struggle, and there were no other indications of such. •Tew left home at mid-day 0:1 Saturday, and attended a football match, returning to Grey Lynn, but not to his home, with five others, at 5.30 p.m. lie was last seen alive at, 8 o'clock last, night, near the scene of the tragedy. A mystifying fact is that although it rained heavily during the night, his clothes were quite dry, and no footprints were visible. The deceased was a grocer’s assistant in a shop 200 yards distant from the scene of the murder.