ADDINGTON MURDER

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 43, 19 February 1918, Page 8

ADDINGTON MURDER

HEARING OF EVIDENCE CON-

CLUDED.

(1.1 TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The trial of Winifred Carrick on a charge of murdering her son Donald Lewis Carrick, aged three, was continued to-day.

Martha Chillingworth gave evidence that accused hired a room on 7th December, but did not occupy it that night. Isabella Patrick, employed at the Parcels Office, Cathedral-square, said the accused left an umbrella and suit case on 7th December, returning the following day for the luggage.

Thomas Henry Playford, cabman, who drove the children to Burns's house from the Receiving Home, detailed a conversation with a woman who was anxious to know where he took the children. He could not swear that accused was the woman.

Detective-Sergeant Gibson gave evidence as to" arresting accused, who denied knowledge where the boy was, and declined to inform him where she spent the previous night, . ,

This closed the evidence for the Crown, and the Court was adjourned to enable the jury to visit the scene of the murder, and also the scene of the abandonment of deceased when an infant.