8 Nov 2022

Crimes NZ: Unsolved murder of pharmacist Arthur Blomfield

From Afternoons, 2:30 pm on 8 November 2022

On Crimes NZ today we are revisiting the historic unsolved murder of Auckland pharmacist, Arthur Blomfield.

Mr Blomfield was killed after being bludgeoned with a blunt object at Mackay's Dispensary on Wellesley St just after 5 o'clock on the 30th of October,1931.

One of New Zealand's best known true crimes writers, Scott Bainbridge, has looked back at this case and who could be the murder suspect. He talks to Jesse about the case.

Mackay's Dispensary Window, 1931.

Mackay's Dispensary Window, 1931. Photo: AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXII, ISSUE 258, 31 OCTOBER 1931, PAGE 10