CREWE MURDERS Lawyers to see cartridge
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 25. Lawyers working for Arthur Allan Thomas, the Pukekawa farmer twice convicted for the Crewe murders, will be allowed to examine a cartridge case they say was used by the police in the preparation of a report on the Crewe case.
The chairman of the Thomas Retrial Committee (Mr G. P. Vesey) said yesterday that the Minister of Justice (Dr Finlay) had sent him a telegram to say permission had been granted.
The cartridge case will be examined at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research office in Auckland.
Mr Vesey said the cartridge case the lawyers wanted to examine was not the one alleged by the Crown to have been fired in Thomas’s rifle to kill Harvey Crewe. This case had been destroyed.
He said he understood the committee’s lawyers had earlier applied to the police and the Solicitor-General to examine the cartridge case in question but had been refused permission.
Mr Vesey understood the case was mentioned in a police report prepared by Detective-Inspector B. T. N. Hutton and Dr D. F. Nelson.
The police report came after claims by a public analyst. Dr T. J. Sprott, and
the assistant-editor of the “Auckland Star,” Mr P. J. Booth, about cartridge cases and bullets presented at the two Thomas trials.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33417, 26 December 1973, Page 1
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