Man questioned of wife's murder

JAKARTA (JP): Kemayoran Police detectives questioned a man on Saturday following the discovery of his wife's body at Gate I of the Kemayoran Jakarta Fair Ground, Central Jakarta.

Central Jakarta Police chief of detectives Adj. Comr. Yoyol said the body of the woman, identified as Yelly Sumarow, 35, a resident of Sunter, North Jakarta, was discovered by security guards early Saturday morning near an entrance on Jl. Benyamin Suaeb.

Quoting forensic doctors at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Yoyol said the brown-eyed, long-haired woman was probably raped, judging from the injuries she sustained.

"Kemayoran Police questioned Yelly's husband, Maxwell, on Saturday night. He told police that she had seemed depressed lately," Yoyol told reporters.

"Maxwell said he saw her last at 4 a.m. on Saturday. She had jumped out of a window of their home in Sunter. He ran after her but she eluded him in the dark. He never saw her alive after that." (ylt)