FOUND NOT GUILTY.
CHARGE OF PATRICIDE.
(United Press Association —Copyright.)
SYDNEY, Nov. 9. The retrial of Cecil Charles for the alleged murder of his father at East Currajong resulted in an acquittal. New Evidence showed that at the time of the old man’s death the son was working about- 200 yards away;. He did not hear the calls for help while other persons much farther off did hear them. Tests disclosed a curious acoustic phenomenon, and an apparent dead space between the position of the soil and the father, in which sound did not carry.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 25, 10 November 1930, Page 5
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