DECOYED TO DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 120, 23 May 1922, Page 5

DECOYED TO DEATH.

BOURNEMOUTH MURDER. '• TICKETHOLDEHS ONLY. LONDON", May If. Only tiikerholdfis wore admitted to ihp Bournemouth Police Court, the doors of which were besieged for three hours, before the opening of the trial of Thou. Allaway. nged 30. o. chmifl'enr. who if charged with the murder of (rone Wilkins after having decoyed hoi to Bournemouth by bogus telegram*. The circumstantial nature of the evidence was indicated by the prosecutor, who said that experts would show that the motor cur trecke at the scene o» the murder were ir-ide l-y Dunlop Magniint tyres. Allaway'* employer'" car was fitted with such tyres, and Allaway | was seecn changing the tyres the day aftor the body whh discovered. Furthermore, Allaway had bren identiuod «s the sender of a decoy t«ile(f"«m (mm Boscombe on December 17.. vrhieli the addressee did not answer.

Experts wolud tnstifv. the prosecutor, continued, to the f>imiliirit.y of the handwriting on thin ' and similar telegrams. ono, dispatched on December 20, asking for h nurse, and another sen* on Deocm- j bcr 22, in reepinse in Mine \V"kin»* arl- ' vertieeiucnt. The latter was diepatched an hour after the prisoner was sum to buy a new paper containing the advertisement. Allaway had attempted, eincc his arrest,, to disiuiec his handwriting. A remand for a week was granted.! Among the witnesses were two Post-i OflVe clerks, who testified that a man i of thp prisoner's hui'd and voice handed j in two te!etfram.». When rross-examined. i they said tliev were not unite certain i that it war, the prisoner. A newsagent j paid, under croßs-examination, he wa« I not mirr that it wa* Allawar who j hoiifM the newspaper, but honestly be- j lieved it was !