HEAYDON MYSTERY

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1923, Page 5

HEAYDON MYSTERY

II USB AND' S EXPL ANATION

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, August 10. In the Heaydon case the police produced two statements made to them, by Heaydon, the accused. In the first, he declared that when his wife left him he understood she was going to stay with friends. She informed him she intended to undergo a. certain operation. He tried to dissuade her, but his effort was [utile. He alleged that he did not know she was dead, but he wrote to his sister-in-law stating his wife was dead, in order to stop correspondence. In the latter statement Heaydon said he visited bis wife while she was in be.d in a home. The nurse subsequently told him his wife was dead. The nurse visited him and scared him by saying she and he would be hanged, and urging avoidance, of disgrace for his child’s sake, and also that it was his wife’s absolute wish that he should do nothing to cause any disgrace, for the child’s sake. For these reasons, he did not report the matter to the ’police. He. did not see his wife after her death, and he did not know what became of the body. Witnesses gave evidence that Heaydon told them his wife had left him.