BODY IN TRUNK TRIAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 December 1934, Page 7

BODY IN TRUNK TRIAL

ACCUSED ACQUITTED • ■■■■— ABSENCE OF MOTIVE STRESSED [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received December 15, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 14. Notyre was acquitted. His immediate discharge ended a squalid panorama: of the underworld. Mr. Norman Birkett, defending counsel, contended that the absence of any suggestion of motive was a vital omission destroying the Crown case. Notyre, when the foreman of the jury spoke the words implying his freedom, seemed dazed .and He placed his hand on his head. “You are discharged,” said Judge Branson. Only then did Notyre seem to realise the situation. He lifted his head, gave a sigh, and left the dock. The Judge, summing up, had ordered an acquittal if the jury were not satisfied that the blow on the ' head caused death. He emphasised the absence of blood-stained clothes identifiable as worn by Notyre, when Kaye died, and added that the jury must be satisfied that Notyre’s hand struck the fatal blow. “But was it the action of an innocent man to nail up; in the cupboard the corpse of the woman he loved, though not yet cold, instead of summoning a doctor to try to resuscitate her?” said the Judge. In the presence of a huge crowd, striving to get a glimpse of him, Notyre drove off two minutes after the delivery of the verdict, amid the customary fanfare of trumpets.

CHILD-KILLER ARRESTED. NEW YORK, December 13. Six years of unrelenting detective work resulted to-day in the’ solution of one of New York’s most baffling kidnapping mysteries. On June 3, 1928, Grace Budd, then aged ten, left her parents’ home in a West Side tenement with a stranger, who offered to take her to a party. She never returned. To-day the stranger was arrested by a detective, who has done practically nothing else for six years than clues in the case. The man identified himself as Albert Fish, aged 65, a house painter. He confessed to kidnapping and murdering the child. He took the .police to a desolate section, in nearby Westchester country, where, in a shallow grave the remains of the body were found. In a full confession, which is not published, the police said Fish admitted attacking the girl, and choking her to death, after which he disposed of the