SUPPOSED MURDER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18232, 18 July 1921, Page 5

SUPPOSED MURDER.

YOUNG MAN’S BODY FOUND. « "Tp (Per Press Association)! ' 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, Francis Edward Jew, was found dead about eleven o’clock this morning on a vacant section at Grey Lynn, Arch Hill, with his head badly battered. The section is covered with blackberry and bramble. The body was found in a track used as a short-cut. Deceased’s father is John Henry Jew, a carpenter, residing at Grey Lynn, Arch Hill. FURTHER DETAILS. SOME MYSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES. AUCKLAND, July 17. A bloodstained paling was found near Jew’s body. There were two large wounds on the back of the head, one just above the forehead, one just under the nose and one just below the right ear. All indications are that he had been struck by the paling. The fact that his overcoat was found across his knees suggests that there had been no struggle, and there are no other indications of such. Jew left home at midday on Saturday and attended a football match, returning to Grey Lynn, but not home, with five others at 5.30. He 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 the deceased’s clothes were quite dry, and no footprints were visible. Deceased was a grocer’s assistant at a shop 200 yards from the scene.