MIGHT BE SUICIDE

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 89, 17 May 1929, Page 9

MIGHT BE SUICIDE

Special to Telegraph.

DEATH OF SAMUEL McALEESE. SENSAT10NAL THEORY OF POLICE.

AUCKLAND, This day. Two very vital point.s, which can not yet be disclosed, are in the possession of tlie poiice, and tliev strongly discredit tlie supposition of murder "in the cas.e of the roadman Sainuel McAlcese, wlio was fonnd dcad 011 the OpotikiGisborne highway oiglit days ago. There is no foundation for the reports tliat an arresfc is imminent. Idle gossip has concoctcd a dozen plots and motivos, which hare been run to cartli hy the dctectives. tliough a very good reason for attributing thc sliooting to an accident was found early in tlie inquiry, and the detectives have not relaxed tlieir pursuit of a niore scnsational theory. Detective McLeod and Detective Knight havo been particulnrlv identified with a very tlirough proho into both facts and faiicios. The fac.t tliat Detective Knight returned to Auckland on Wednesday to follow a possible source of inforination was a.ssumed in some quarters to be indieative of a clue pointing to murder. Tlie detective lias completed his inquirv and is returning to the scene of the fatality. * Where the detectives have thought their own ohscrvations inadequato tliey h-ive called in expcrt opinion and scientific examination of exliihits has Kfrengthencd the theorv tliat McAleose threw tlie sack containing his loaded rifle on to a hard patcli of ground. whlrh eaused perenssion. The injury on tlie dead lnan's liead is oonsistent with liim pitching forward on his face.