LATE NEWS MURDER CHARGE AGAINST WOMAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1948, Page 7

LATE NEWS MURDER CHARGE AGAINST WOMAN

(P.AJ DUNEDIN, This Day. Most of the morning session at the trial of Phyllis Freeman on a charge of murdering Joyce -Maysie Morrison at Enfield on Octobei* 3, 1942, was occupied with the cross-examination of Hector Morrison, husband of the dead woman. To counsel for the defence, Mr J. E. Farrell, witness said his wife was 46 at the time of her death and he was 42. He said he remembered seeing some medicine bottles about before his wife had an operation in November prior to her death. The accused had told him that Mrs Morrison wanted strychnine to poison rabbits on the property. In reply to further questions, Morrison said he was now keeping company with the widow of a man who was a neighbouring farmer. Accused, he said, had worked for other farmers in. the district and there was no suggestion of trouble with these employers. The accused bore a good character and was a good housekeeper. JURY RETIRES IN BODY-REMOVING CASE (P.A.) TIHARU, This Day. The jury retired at 1 p.m. in the case in which Desmond Robert Perry was charged in the Supreme Court with improperly interfering with a dead human body. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr W. D. Campbell, submitted that the accused was sane at the time of the offence. Mr J. K. Moloney, for Perry, claimed that while Perry admitted removing the body from the car on the beach and taking it into the country, he denied having' taken it from the morgue nr that he sexually interfered with it.

Mr Justice Fleming advised the jury that taking the body from, the car to the country was improperly interfering with it. If the jury decided that he committed other offences, they must also decide whether he was sane enough to know he was doing wrong. aucklandTcraft WINS SANDERS CUP (P.A.) DUNEDIN, This Day. By winning the fifth race in the Sanders Cup contest this morning, Bettina (Auckland) won the trophy for the next 12 months. Bettina went into the lead shortly after the start and was never seriously threatened. The following is the results: Auckland (Ihr 49min 58sec), 1; Otago (Ihr 51min 23sec), 2; Canterbury (Ihr 53min 25sec), 3; South Canterbury (Ihr 54min 34sec), 4; Wellington (Ihr 56min 24sec), 5: North Auckland (Ihr 58min 18sec), 6; Southland (2hr Imin 58sec). 7. Stewart Island retired. J- .