PUKEKAWA MURDER.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5633, 9 November 1920, Page 5

PUKEKAWA MURDER.

CHIEF JUSTICE ADDRESSES THE GRAND JURY. REFERENCE TO AN ALLEGED ADMISSION. AUCKLAND, Nov. 8. In the? course of his charge to the grand jury this morning on the various indictments for their consideration. His Honour tli6 Chief Justice mad* special reference to the case in which John Thorn was accused of having murdered Sydney Seymour Eyre at Pukekawa on August 25. His Honor said the evidence iwould show that Eyre did not commit suicide, but must have been killed by a shot, through the window fired by a left, handed man. Thorn, the accused man, it appeared, had been carrying on with Mrs Eyre. He had not denied her statement to that effect. According to the evidence, he was anxious that Eyre should be put out of the way, evidently having an attachment for Mrs E.vr»After reviewing other points in the case His Honor read certain evidence of alleged'statements by Thorn which the Judge said implied that Thorn was present, and saw the murder, or that he knew who committed the murder, yet he did not choose to give an explanaJ tion of why he made those statements. He might do so when he came before the Jury"Gentlemen,’’ concluded the Judge, •if that was not an admission I do

not know What an admission is/' Y. A. • • ..