SEAMAN ON TOTAL
shopping of marines
\VOUNDED GIRL’S STORY
CP.A.) WELLINGTON, May 12.. Evidence was given in the Supreme Court yesterday, by Hazel Josephine Salmon,' the principal witness in .the trial ".of John Sidney Crawford, a Seaman, aged’ 26,‘0n a charge of murdering-two .United .States Marines at 17 Terrace Gardens,'Wellington, in the early hours of January 7.' 'Miss Salmon, aged"2o,-' is still a hospital patient, having received several wounds in the shooting in which the ’two men "Idst tlieir lives. Her left arm vvas :in a splint, and she had a 'dressing bn* her thhoat: ’ She gave her evidence seated in an arm-, chair on the floor of the Supreme Court,’a' ntirse Sitting’at .her side; Her whispered replies were highly magnified by the court’s-.soiind-amplification system. ' ’acfjouriimehf interrupted her' dvidenfce. ’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21092, 12 May 1943, Page 4
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