MURDER AT PALMERSTON

Patea Mail, 26 August 1931, Page 4

MURDER AT PALMERSTON

MAN SHOT DM AD. ROP.BRKV BKI.I IvV 171) MOTIVJ7. A. veil of mystery which shrouded t!u.' lie;U h of Kilwin .lnim Blakewe.y, who.'C 1 1 ('n l l IKM Iy \v:is ion i) 1 1 111 1 :i r lus racing eibyele at. 7.-11 lon .Monday morning at I’almeislon North, was lifted sufficiently hy the ('veiling to disclose a brutal murder ■u ith robbery as the motive. A post mortem examination on Monday night disclosed that death was caused by at least four bullet wounds in the nose, chest, and wrist from a jy ull of small call lire. Indications point to a struggle a! the point where the body was found after Blakeaway had dismounted from his machine, this leading to the deduction that he walked towards his attacker with his hand upraised to prstecl his head, thus receiving n bullet through the wrist, at elose ranee. The* affair has all the (dements ol premeditated murder will: robbery as the motive. The suicide theory is ruled. out as definitely impossible and jealousy or revenue motives are sclented with equal vigour in ollicial quarters. while the location of tin* bullet wounds preclude death by any conceivable accidental happening. Three detectives have been (.-basing clues and have interrogated a number of people. At II p.m. dm Monday detectives brought into the station a tall man. hatless and collarless, with whom thev were still engaged at midnight. 'The police are extremely reticent and will only acknowledge that Blakeaway was shot.

Blakeaway was a ■prominent amateur cvelisl. aged i’(i years, married, and was a bmrking clerk at the Palmerston North railway station, a position lie had held only since August 11, lie previously having been stationed at Otaki. His parents reside in Avonhead Road. Ppper Riecarton. ''lirisi-chnn-li.