SAYWELL INQUEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 208, 2 September 1932, Page 7

SAYWELL INQUEST.

Pathetic Scene in Court At Sydney. SON'S INNOCENCE. [ SYDNEY, September 1. The inquest into the death of Mr. , Victor Say well, lawyer, which resulted from an attack upon him und his wife as they lay in bed at their home at Bellvue Hill, Sydney, on the night of April 22, was coatinued to-day. Detective Matthews read a statement ma.de by Jack Saywell, son of deceased, in which he said his mother disapproved of him marrying a Roman Catholic girl, and that she had told him that if he did marry her, she and his father would cut 'him out oftheir wills. Young Saywell said he answered:—"l am only a kid, mother, and have no intention of getting married." Witness said the young man seemed very distressed about his parents' condition on the morning the tragedy was discovered. Jewellery worth about £2000 which was thought to be missing was found subsequently on a shelf in the mother's wardrobe. No money was missing. The police endeavoured to obtain fingerprint evidence, but without success. After evidence had been given by Jack Saywell's girl friend, Jean Commerford, aged 18, also by other witnesses, the coroner adjourned the inquest until September 16 in the hope that Mrs. Saywell may be able to speak and to recollect the events of the night of the tragedy. The coroner said that Jack Saywell must have suffered terrible remorse in the past few weeks. "I do not think, however, so far as the evidence goes, that he need lose any further sleep," remarked the coroner. After hearing this the young man, overcome by emotion, created a pathetic scene in the Court.