EXTRA EDITION. RAMARAMA MURDER CASE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue XC, 7 October 1915, Page 8

EXTRA EDITION. RAMARAMA MURDER CASE

TO-DAY'S EVIDENCE (BT TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The inquest on Thomas Perry, murdered at Ramarama, was continued today. Harold Pilkington, a neighbour of Perry, gave evidence that he witnessed the will made by the deceased, in which no mention was made of the wife. On being informed that if the wife was not mentioned she might be able to dispute ■the will, deceased agreed that she should be given a life interest in the property. Gordon M'Dowell, a labourer, gave evidence that he was on friendly terms with Mr. and Mrs. Perry. Under cross-examination, witness admitted that Mrs. Perry frequently came to his tent at Ramarama when he was alone, and that he had cohabited with her. On 21st September he met her by appointment. He gave her ten shillings to go to town. She told him her husband had been nasty. Mrs. Perry told him that owing to what the neighbours had said concerning the parentage of the child Leonard, her husband had taken a dislike to the boy. Someone had told him that the child was like witness, and he had since been cruel to the child. When he told Mrs. Perry that he was going to buy a farm, she said she might visit him now and again. She once said that she intended to leave her husband and go to town. He had never supplied her with cartridges. He had given her thirty shillings when she stated that her husband had burned her clothes.