MURDERED SQUATTER

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1927, Page 7

MURDERED SQUATTER

CROWN CASE WEAK. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, December 9. The casp for the Crown in the charge against the three Higgs . brothers (Manly, Sydney), of murdering the pastoralist Leslie, on a Blue Mountain road, was to-day concluded. The Crown case depended upon circumstantial evidence only. . Counsel, in presenting the case for the defence, argued that from the beginning to the end of the case, there had been no suggestion of a motive for the crime. The Higgs brothers had never heard of Leslie, nor had Leslie heard of them. It was difficult to surmise the whole possible theory which the Crown could put forward to connect these young men -with crime. He submitted that it was a much more reasonable theory that someone Had attempted to rob Leslie, who was known to possess a large sum of money. All the facts were compatible with a reasonable theory of innocence, and the case should not be left to the jury.. ; The Judge, however, ruled that it was a case fit for, the jury’s consideration, and that he would not be justified in taking the case away from them.