Two men on charge

Press, 5 December 1978, Page 4

Two men on charge

FA Auckland Two meh charged’’ with the attempted murder of a Karaka farmer, Milton Thomas Hayr, on October 6 have been committed for trial in the Supreme Court a Auckland The defendants were also charged with breaking and entering a house in Karaka on the same date. Phillip James Sattler, aged 24, a farmhand, of Papakura, and Raymond Hall, aged 20, a plumber’s labourer, of Manurewa, appeared before Mr K. H. Mason, S.M. Hall also faced a charge o. possessing heroin for supply and Sattler a cnarge of breaking and entering the house in Karaka on September 25. The Magistrate held that there was a prima facie case to answer on all charges. The defendants were remanded in custody after bail applications were declined. David John Milton, a mechanic, of Papakura, said in evidence that he had found Mr Hayr lying unconscious in a cowyard when he and his wife went , to Mr Hayr’s

property about 9.30 a.m. on October 7. “My, wife went to telephone for an ambulance while I tried to sweep some water away from Mr Hayr and put a coat beside him to shield him,” witness said. “Mr Hayr was covered in blood and there was a hole over his left eye.” Detective L. N. Proctor said that on October 9 he went with the accused Hall to an address in Manurewa, where Hall gave him six sachets of white powder hidden in a bedroom closet. Hall said it was heroin. A statement by a D.S.I.R. forensic scientist was read to the court, which said that the sachets contained 255 mg of white powder which contained 6 per cent heroin.

In earlier depositions, Gary Colin Wise, aged 12, a schoolboy, said that at 7.45 p.m. on October 6 he was a passenger in the family car, driving back to Karaka from Papakura. He said that he saw a dirty white and brown car being driven as if the driver was drunk, and

swerving from one side of the road to the other. “We followed it until it slowed down and pulled to the left,” he said. “After' we passed it it speeded up and began to follow us.” Frederick Colin Wise, a farmer, said that the car was an early to mid-1950s creamy-coloured Vauxhall. As he followed it the driving was erratic, and at one stage the right rear of the car crossed the white line. The car followed the Wise’s car and passed it when Mr Wise turned into the driveway of his farm. Detective Constable G. L. Stewart said that the bedroom of the 'Hayr house appeared to have been searched and the contents of two wardrobes had been dragged out and scattered. “Kitchen cupboards were opened, and a desk in a sunporch appeared to have been searched.” Scuff marks were found on weatherboards beneath a window, as if someone wearing black footwear had climbed inside. An empty wallet was found in the bedroom. No large sums of money were found in the house.