REDFERN MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 9

REDFERN MURDER.

AYES' APPEAL FAILS. SYDNEY, August 14. The appeal of Cecil Henry Rivy Ayes, who w r as .condemned to death for the murder of Mrs. Florence May Quirk at Redfern on March 12, has been dismissed by the High Court.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

The appeal relied upon a number of grounds, including whether the Crown Prosecutor read to the jury the contents of a letter written by one of the wit_esses, which was inadmissible in evidence; whether he read to the jury, while cross-examining Ayes, extracts from the deposition made at the Coroner's Court by the same witness; whether the Crown Prosecutor, in asking Ayes about the contents of a letter, held it up and commenced: "That -statement is in these letters." Leave was also asked by Ayes' counsel to argue the additional grounds that the Chief Justice was in error in his summing-up, when he said, referring to the evidence given -by Allan Skidmore, that "the story which he tells now is substantially the same as that which, according to Sergeant Matthews, he told on the day after" the murder."