FATAL QUARREL

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 August 1930, Page 8

FATAL QUARREL

, MIDNIGHT DRAMA IN FLAT. > A dramatic story of a midnight [ quarrel that ended in -tragedy was • disclosed at Marylebone Police Court, when Leslie Tarkington (27), a free- ! lanco journalist, of Sutherland Ave- • nue, Maida Vale, appeared, charged with tho murder of Hilda Harrison or Keith. A statement which Turkington was alleged to have made to Detective Inspector Yandell was read by Mr. Vincent Evans, who appeared for the Director of Public Prosecutions. In this statement Turkington said he made the woman’s acquaintance five years ago, on tho night he was to have sailed for Canada. He lived with her, and on the night of the tragedy, on reaching homo at midnight, he found her with a strange man. Later, there was a. scene, and he finally ejected her from tho bedroom. “I then heard her move along the hall very quickly” (the statement continued), “and tho door opened and shut. I dashed through the sitting room . . . and looking through the Venetian blinds saw her attempting to reach over to the window. I put my hands through the slats of the blinds and pressed firmly downwards against tho window pane for about five seconds, when I hoard a thud and a faint moan.” On reaching the porch he found that tho moaning came from the basement, and in thq moonlight saw her lying in the area. Ho got her up from (ho rca by hugging her to him. On reaching the entrance hall he collapsed with Harrison on top of him. Mr. Evans said that the medical evidence went to show that the woman’s injuries could not be accounted for entirely by the fall into the area; some of them must have been received dining the quarrel. A remand was ordered. i