MURDER CHARGE
FQRTHER REMAND GRANTED
Joseph Barnes, a cook, .32: years of :age, who .is alleged1 to have murdered Walter John Whall, atWellihgton, on the - Ist May; was further,- remanded by Mr. E. Page, S.M., to-day, on the application of Chief Detective Kemp' to the 14th May. \. !•. . :. ' '".Mt. J .F.B. Stevenson, ..who appeared for. the accused, said that as the post-mortem examination on the deceased had been conducted,'the police should soon be in a position '^o proceed with the preliminary hearing: . The accused was charged with the most serious crime on the criminal calendar, and although upon his • (counsel's) instructions he had a good defence to the charge it was . essential that^ tho accused should hear atahe. earliest .moment what the case was against; him, so that lie min-ht be in a -position to prepare his defence on those grounds.- When a.further remand_ was asked for he intended to oppose it. ■ . V /:: :- .... l
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1924, Page 8
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153MURDER CHARGE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1924, Page 8
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