ORARI RIVER MURDER
ACCUSED BEFORE THE COURT. (BY T£l EORAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TIMARU, This Day. Afc the Gerakline Court this morning, Henry Uripps'came before -the* Magistrate, Mr. V. G. Day, on a charge of the murder of Adam Stevenson on 25th April. So far the evidence is on the lines of that given at the Coroner's in* tjtiest, with the, addition of evidenco as to the identification of the clothing by the housekeeper, the purchase of kerosene by tho accused, (the clothing on the dead man's body was saturated with kerosene), and. the evidence of a witness, who met 'Cripps on the road coming from the Orari Paver, where the body had been deposited in the goree. STATEMENT BY ACCUSED. COMMITTED FOE TRIAL. * Later. Detective Fahey put in a statement made by Cripps on 28th April. It is very rambling, and the only reference to 25th April is that he and Stevenson had a "growl." On 30th April Cripps made a further statement, in which he said Stevenson hit him with a crowbar, and "I hit him with a stick on the head. I washed his face, and was "going to take him down to you fellows. I got frightened, and carted him to the riverbed." Accused was committed fop trial at Timaru on 9th June.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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216ORARI RIVER MURDER Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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