TRIAL OF CARTMAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 11

TRIAL OF CARTMAN

EVIDENCE FOR CROWN

DISCOVERIES OF POLICE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. After the opening of the Crown case in which Douglas Herbert Cartman, aged 22, is charged with the murder of Elizabeth Agnes Hamilton, evidence was given by several witnesses. A brief appearance was made yesterday by Lance-Corporal Frederick William Hamilton, husband of the deceased woman.- He said he was in, hospital with appendicitis on the night of April 2. The former licensee of the Waikino Hotel, John Joseph Moran, said he first became anxious about his son Lloyd and Mrs. Hamilton about 11 o'clock at night. After midnight he and others began a search without result, but about daylight a dog indicated to him where his son was lying over a bank. Constable W. C. Harper, Waihi, told of the finding of the body of Lloyd Moran, fully clothed, with the exception of his left shoe.. He noted bloodstains, and at various spots picked up a handkerchief, two women's white canvas shoes, a pair of damaged spectacles, and pieces of broken glass from the headlamp of'a car. "When he examined the accused's car later, witness noticed that the right headlamp glass and bulb were missing and found a stain on the cushion of the dickey seat. He saw minute quantities of fatty substance and of hair about the car. Detective Hayes, of Hamilton, was the first witness today. He said that he and Sergeant Walsh saw that blood had soaked about three inches into the ground at the place where Mrs. Hamilton's body was found. Cross-examined, he admitted that he had not mentioned this at the preliminary trial, not deeming it of sufficient importance to mention when not asked questions. INSPECTION OF CAB. During the morning the Court adjourned to inspect a motor-car. Roy Albert Fitzgerald, bushman, Katikati, identified the car used by Cartman as one witness had traded-in in December. He identified certain tools used in the car, including a tyre lever found beside Mrs. Hamilton's body, as having been in the car when it was traded-in.

Gordon Duffy identified a cleat found on the roadway where marks indicated an accident as the cleat which he had put on the front bumper of a car traded-in by Fitzgerald and later sold to the accused.

K. M. Griffin, Government Analyst, gave evidence that pieces of glass found on the road near the cleat corresponded in characteristics with a fragment found at the back of a broken head-lamp on Cartman's car.