ALLEGED MURDER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 137, 11 June 1940, Page 9

ALLEGED MURDER

TRIAL OF CARTMAN

DOCTORS GIVE EVIDENCE

IDENTITY OF CAR

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WAIHI, This Day.

The trial of Douglas Herbert Cartman alleged to have murdered Elizabeth Agnes Hamilton at Waikino on April 2, was continued today.

A statement made by the accused j before his arrest was produced by I Detective Henry Francis Miller. The witness said that on April 23 he visited the accused's home with Constable W. C. Harper, whose testimony concerning the examination of the car he cbrroborated. Two days later, he said, the accused was interviewed at Waihi and gave an account of his transactions. with the car and of his movements on the night of the tragedy. The accused's statement was to the effect that. on the evening of April 2 he had tea at home about 4 p.m. and then drove his car to the Sterling Hotel, where ; he consumed four handles of beer. He \ left before 6 p.m. and drove on his | own to Waihi Beach. There he parked the car and strolled about the beach. He did not meet anyone he knew. Returning home about 7.40 p.m. he parked the car outside the gate and went io bed. He was awakened by his mother before midnight, when he went to •work. The key of the car, according to custom, he hung on a nail in his room. A former owner of the «jar, Roy Albert Fitzpatrick, bushman, Katikati, stated that since he had sold the car the front bumper, lamp, rod, and radiator casing had been dented. The witness identified a tyre lever as one of the tools left in the car when he had traded it in. Trooper Gordon Edward Duffy, of the Papakura Camp, stated that he worked at S. and R. Donkin's garage in Thames in December, 1939, when Fitzpatrick traded in a Nash car and Cartmari bought it a few days later. Witness had overhauled the car, putting a cleat on the front bumper bar. The witness described damage to the car noted during an inspection of it at the Waihi Police Station. Kenneth Massey Griffin, Government analyst at Auckland, showed a piece of glass found on the accuseds car. It was from the same batch of 'glass as 15 pieces found at the scene of the accident. * Dr. Walter Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland Hospital, gave evidence regarding bloodstains and human hairs resembling Mrs. Hamilton's and Moran's. These were found about and knder the car, on a. tyre lever, and jon a piece of wood found near Moran's [body. :..