KYEBURN MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 5

KYEBURN MURDER.

TRIAL WEARING ITS END.

EVIDENCE AGAINST HARDIE.

FOOTPRINT FOUND AT CLAIM.

(By Telegraph-.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. The trial of William John Hardie, on the charge of murdering Joe Leong Shun at Kyeburn Diggings on July 17, is expected to end to-day. Detective Lean gave evidence as to accosting accused in the street, and said he was warned about making a statement. He said he did not know any Chinese at Kyeburn, nor had he shown any photographs to a Chinese. In a wallet on accused was found a paper indicating that he had sold a little over an ounce of gold to the Bank of New South Wales on July 18. When accused was told that the photographs found on him would be shown to Sue Pee, he said he showed them to a Chinese in the Kyeburn Hotel three weeks before. Sub-Inspector Fahey described the identification parade, in which 16 men, all 6ft high, seven of them dressed similarly to the accused, were lined up. Accused was allowed to choose.his position in the row. Evidence as to the close similarity of points of. accused's boots with the plaster cast of a footprint found at Slum's claim was given by Henry Louis Paterson, a licensed surveyor. He said he could find no nail marks on the cast which did not correspond with nails on the boot. . *