WHERE THE BODY WAS FOUND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5859, 29 April 1897, Page 3

WHERE THE BODY WAS FOUND.

[Peh the "Stab" Pigeon Express.] AMBERLEY— THIS DAY. Not a great deal can be added to the details given above, the circumstances surrounding the crime being of a meagre description. The spot where the body was was found is hardly more than half a mile from the township, and beside one of the main roads leading from the township to Rangiora. Beside the road on Mr Douglas's property, there is a long plantation of pine , trees devoid of undergrowth. Next the road there is an< open wire fence, and about half a chain inside this runs a gorse fence, which had been recently trimmed. Between the pines there is a foothpath, and it is extremely likely that the girl was walking along this whenattacked. The girl was tall and delicate, and it is supposed that when she was attacked by the murderer, whose object was. evidently outrage, she fainted, and was completely at his mercy. This supposition was borne out by the fact that there was no blood on her hands. When the body was found the clothes were disarranged, and the upper part was covered with gorse, which had been trimmed from the fence. A young man named William Dwan, who was working about three hundred yards from the spot at the time the crime was supposed to have been committed, heard no sound. This morning inspector Broham and Detectives Benjainin, Maddern and Marsack, and Constables Roche and Johnston, made a thorough search of the spot, in the hope of finding evidence, but were not able to discover anything of importance.