T.A.B. Shooting Evidence By Accused’s Brother

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30736, 28 April 1965, Page 3

T.A.B. Shooting Evidence By Accused’s Brother

Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 27. A witness told the Magistrate’s Court at Pukekohe today that his brother had shown him a bag containing the money taken in a robbery from the Tuakau T.A.8., hidden behind the hot-water cylinder of their home.

The witness was giving evidence at a preliminary hearing of a charge of attempted murder against Calvin Berry Williams, aged 22, a scrub-cutter.

The hearing was adjourned by Mr N. M. Izard. S.M. It will resume in the Magistrate's Court at Hamilton on Friday with only two witnesses—both detectives—left to give evidence.

Williams was remanded in custody. Williams (Dr. C. F. Fernyhough) is charged with the attempted murder of Walter Rotherham at Tuakau on February 20.

Detective Senior Sergeant R. C. Anderson appeared for the police.

Gerhardus Josef Marie' Martens, a carpenter, said he!’ knew Williams. Three or four ; months ago he repaired the I; stock of a shotgun brought top him by Williams’s brother. ' Derek Harold Bright, a T.A.B. auditor and agency in-il spector. said he audited the accounts at the Tuakau 11 agency after the robbery and ! found a total shortage of £622 1 6s. ; MONEY IN BAG A Huntly miner. David . Robert Donaldson, said that! on February 20 he drank with; Williams from 4 to 6 p.m. ini' the Tuakau Hotel. Williams, was taken afterwards to the Tuakau bridge where he was going to hitch-hike home to , Glen Murray. :

■ Donaldson said he rode in I the rodeo at the Pukekohe | Show that night, went on to a party and then went to Williams’s home. He was woken when Williams came home. Next morning, Williams and I his brother drove him home. They stopped briefly at a house and afterwards Williams’s brother said the Tuakau T.A.B. had been held up and a man shot. Williams said ; nothing. Norman Campbell Hollis, a scrub-cutter, said that on , March 1 Clive and Calvin Williams picked him up in Tuakau and they all drove to Auckland. “I was just told by Clive that Calvin thought he had done it,” said Hollis when asked by Mr Anderson if the

Tuakau shooting was mentioned. “The defendant showed me a red bag and said it had the money in it. We didn’t discuss it all.” A detective constable, Lindley David Sinton, said he saw Williams on February 26 and asked if he could account for his movements on the night of February 20. Sinton said he asked if Williams had a shotgun. Williams said he had not had a shotgun for 12 months. “ADMITTED ROBBERY” Clive Anthony Williams, a scrub-cutter and brother of the accused, said that about 2 p.m. on March 7 when he and his brother were cutting scrub his brother came across to talk. “He said something like he was going to give himself up. Something in that line. “I said: ‘You don’t want to do that because I have got so much scrub to cut. I thought he was going to give up scrubcutting. “He told me he thought he might have done the robbery at Tuakau. It was that much of a shock I couldn’t believe it. “He said he was going to the police station.” “I can remember saying that 1 would take him in. He said he had the money at home. It was behind the hotwater cylinder in a white canvas bag.” The bag was tied at the top and they did not touch the money, said the witness. His brother said nothing about a shotgun, but the witness had seen one previously when he had taken it to be repaired.