MURDER MYSTERY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 215, 11 September 1944, Page 6

MURDER MYSTERY

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST MAN'S BULLET-RIDDLED BODY (0.C.) SYDNEY, Sept. 8. Further evidence at the inquest on George Arthur Morris did little to clear up his murder on March 29, when his bullet-riddled body was found on the front seat of his car, which was standing near the city end of the harbour bridge. Morris, aged 44, was a mechanic. Claude James Markham, who said he was a second-hand tyre dealer in Parkes. denied having told a witness Mrs. Jean McNicol Evans, that Joseph Harold Ryan, a wharf labourer, was "gunning" for Morris who had been a Crown witness at a trial following the Mudgee mail robbery some years ago. It has been alleged that Ryan had telephoned Morris and arranged to met him near the harbour bridge, but a foreman stevedore gave evidence that Ryan was working all night when Morris was murdered. Ryan denied that about three weeks before Morris , death he suggested to Morris that they should nold up a man called "Siddie" Kelly who was managing a baccarat school for Woolcott Forbes, and rob him of £3000 which he was holding. Sergeant Brown, in charge of the Ballistic Section, C.1.8., said that two pistols of different types were used in the shooting of Morris. The inquest was adjourned until September 29.