MURDER CHARGE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 17, 20 July 1931, Page 10

MURDER CHARGE

CASE AGAINST EAMEKA

TO-DAY'S EVIDENCE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The hearing of the charge of murder ■ against Georgo Eamcka was resumed in the Police Court to-day. A woman living in the house at which Eameka arrived after the stabbing of Mrs. Johnson >said that he appeared like a man walking in his sleep. When she asked him what was wrong ho replied, "My girl has turned me' down after I havo given her £.24, also tho last £7. She, turned me down, also he i 1 people." ' Dr. O'Brien, of Auckland Hospital, said that Kaineka was under his care for about eight days after his admission on tbe day of tho murder. He showed, wo mental abnormalities. Two shop assistants said that they remembered a Maori buying a knife' at about 5.30 o'clock on the morning of the murder, and a chemist said a Maori bought a bottle of poison on the previous afternoon. Wini Anaru, a young Maori who ■ lived with the accused, said that the accused rose before daybreak on 24th Juuc, and then left'the house at 6 o'clock), saying that he would be buck at 8. . Cross-examined, the witness said that the accused and.Mrs. Johnson were very friendly. When she came with the accused to the accused's lodgings they made love, and when he went with the accused to see- Mrs. Johnson when sho was ill they were still making love, and Mrs. Johnson said to witness, "Jimmy, tako care x of my husband."