BLOOD-STAINED HAMMER DISCOVERED
£5O RECOVERED BUT £lOO STILL MISSING (Press Assn.) Auckland, Sept. 29. A blood - stained claw-hammer, which is believed to have been used in a vicious attack on a factory manager, Mr. Eric Lloyd Riley, when the premises of E. L. Riley, clothing manufacturers, in Newmarket, were burgled by three persons on Sunday afternoon, was found by police near the scene of the struggle. Detectives also recovered a bank bag containing £5O in the factory, but over £lOO is still missing, while small sums also were found to have been taken from two other offices in the same building. Mr. Riley's condition to-night was still serious. As a result of extensive inquiries by a large number of detectives three suspec.'s were arrested late to-day. Two of th- rnstierts are juveniles.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19410930.2.72
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 6
Word Count
132BLOOD-STAINED HAMMER DISCOVERED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.