PALMERSTON MYSTERY

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17965, 10 March 1930, Page 7

PALMERSTON MYSTERY

A PERPLEXING PROBLEM. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE. PALMERSTON N., Sunday. The mysterious circumstances which surround the death of Walter Edwin Price, the Palmerston North builder, who was found shot in his bedroom last Wednesday morning, continue to offer a most perplexing problem, to which the police can offer no solution. John Price, the IG-year-old son, who was alone in the house with his father on the night of the, tragedy, states emphatically that his father was murdered. In this lie is supported by his elder brother, George, who arrived on Thursday from Christchurch. The boys state that their father was a man of a very happy disposition, with no known financial worries or enemies. Possibly the most important disclosure since the initial facts of the tragedy were published is that the right hand of the dead man when lie was found in the morning was rigid, in a position such as would he adopted in grasping the stock of a gun. It has aiso been established definitely that there was no blood on his bed, although it showed traces of having been occupied. Deceased was lying at right angles to the bed, with his head and snoulders underneath it. The only blood-stains found in the house were those around his head. The sheet and blanket upon which he was lying were quite smooth and appeared as though they had been laid on the floor carefully.