THE GREY LYNN MYSTERY

Evening Star, Issue 17766, 14 September 1921, Page 6

THE GREY LYNN MYSTERY

[Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 14. The inquest on Frank Jew was continued to-day. , , Matthew liroclio gave evidence that Ho was in company with tho deceased and others about 7 o’clock on tho Saturday iiMit. Jew was pretty sober. loin M“Mahon was under the influence of dnnk. Witness and Cordon tried to get Jew -and M'Mahon to go borne, hut they would not Jew was sitting on the step in Dio doorway most of the time, leaning* against tho wail. Jew said he would go to Newdirk’s loft for a sleep. Cross-examined, witness said ho thought lie heard Jew say he would like to go to sleep on a section by tho church. Ho heard Tom M'Mahon refuse to go to the .section with him. When _ this question was repeated, witness said ho only thou nil t he heard M'Mahon say so. Counsel for Tom M'Mahon raised the question of tho admissibility of statements made by tho witness to the police. Tho Magistrate remarked that there had been extraordinary reluctance on the part of some of the witnesses to say what they did know, though they had not shown actual hostility. ' Ho saw no reasons why statements made two or three days after tragedy should not bo used to refresh their memories. Witness, replying to a question, said that on Sunday morning ho asked Tom M'Mahon how ho had got home the previous night. M'Mahon stated that Jew left him at the tram terminus and took a car. He could not understand why Cordon, who was present at that conversation, could have said that M'Mahon stated that Jew left him at Gregory’s shop.