MURDER TRIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 102, 1 May 1936, Page 7

MURDER TRIAL.

QUEENSLAND TRAIN CRIME,

(Received 9.30 a.m.)

BRISBANE, this day

Further evidence was heard in the City Court in the case 111 which Herbert Kopet, alias Colbert, labourer, a"-ed 28, is charged with murdering Messrs. H. J. Speering and M. F. Costello, and attempting to kill Mr. Thomas Boys, in a train 011 April -i. The. evidence of the detectives who arrested accused supported his signed statement concerning the attacks on his victims. Detective Mahoney, of Brisbane, said that while he was escorting accused through Sydney to Brisbane the latter suggested that the ear should be driven through Darlinghurst so that he could indicate the shops where he had bought the women's clothes and shoes in which he had masqueraded in Sydney and Melbourne until he was arrested Witness assented and accused pointed out the different shops.

Detective Malioney related a conversation with Kopet after his arrest when the latter said lie had "barbared several hotels in Queensland, .using a stolen railway pass to take him to Rockhampton, Maryborough and Yeppoon, finally boarding the Bunclabe g mail train on April 2, when the two travellers, Messrs. Speenng and Costello, were killed and the train conductor, Mr. Boys, seriously injured. The'case was then adjourned.