SHOOTING IN GARAGE
DESCRIBED AS ACCIDENTAL WOMAN'S TESTIMONY SET ASIDE * • SYDNEY, June 10. The Minister of Justice, Mr. L. O. Martin, in the Legislative Assembly today, mentioned the case of James IVTassey, who is to be hanged next Monday. Mr. Martin said that he had received a statutory declaration from Mrs. Elizabeth Bellingham, who declared that she was inside Stead's garage and witnessed the , shooting, which so upset her that she had since been unable to tell her story and had consequently remained in the background. She described the shooting as accidental. Stead .made a grab at Massey and seized his wrist and the revolver went off. Mr. Martin said that detectives had investigated the woman's story, which was so at variance with known and undoubted facts that the Government was unable to place the slightest credence in it, and consequently the law would be allowed to take its course. Mr. Martin said that there was abundant evidence that Massey fired the shot at least two feet from Stead's body, and .that therefore it was deliberate. James Leighton Massey, aged 21, was found guilty of shooting and killing Norman Stead after attempting to rob a service station at Darlinghurst on February 10.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 137, 11 June 1936, Page 9
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202SHOOTING IN GARAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 137, 11 June 1936, Page 9
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