HEARD MOANS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 11

HEARD MOANS

saw berriman wounded,

BUCKLEY’S TRIAL

.MAN RAN WITH LIAIP

MELBOURNE, Nov. 26. . A witness at the trial of Richard Buckley, 67, for Ibo Murder of the bank manager, T. IE V. Berriman, at Glcnferrie seven years ago, said he heard a shot and saw Mr. Berriman leaning against a rail and moan-

ing. William •Robert James, meterreader, said that on October 8, 1923, he was facing the passageway at the Glen ferric station in which Mr. Bcrrirnan was shot. He saw Mr. Berriman walk up the passageway. Two mc-n who had been hanging about for- about half afu hour, walked towards Air. Berriman. 'Witness heard a shot, and saw Air. Berriman leaning against a rail, moaning.

Tlic taller of the two men was about five yards away from Mr. Bcr•riman, and had in. his hand a bag which Mr. Bnrrimnn had been carrying. The shorter man was just leaving Mr. Berriman. “Later I saw Angus Murray at the Melbourne gaol and picked him out of 30 men, as the fuller of the two mtin. I Had seen at Glcnferrie” said the witness. “The shorter man looked about 40, and when he was running he moved' with a limp.” Mr. Book: Have a look at the prisoner. Witness: He is similar in appearance to the shorter man. He is also similar as regards features. He did not have a heard or moustache.when I saw him at Glcnferrie. The man 1 saw was clean-shaven.

THREATENED BY TAYLOR.”

"I was threatened by Taylor that if I did give evidence, they would get- me.” be replied, when asked why he had sought exemption from giving evidence at Aiui'ray’s trial. Albert AVillinm Keown. assistant superintendent of the railway refreshment services, said that after the shot had been fired he saw a man whom he identified as Murray, and a short, thich-set man with a revolver in lip hand, snatc-h a. bag from Air. Berriman. The man with the revolver gave the bag to Afnrray and said. "Go for your life!” or "Oct for your life!”

REVOLVER AT DIGGER.

As they ran away the man with the ungainly walk levelled his revolver at a returned soldier who followed him. A dark-colored car drove off shortly afterwards. Afi 4 . Jveown said the man be sun was stouter than the accused and he was clean-shaven. Only m general appearance and build did he resemble the accused. A photograph 'hotfn him resembled the man fit?

Cornelius Alanly. assistant station master at Glcnferrie. sa.id he saw two men running away after the shot. He identified Murray, of whom lie got a better view. The shorter man was about oo nr 60 years old, and ’‘nor too good on his feet.” He had a decided drag on one leg. The man in the doc-k was of similar build, but the face was different. Henry George Farey, a baker, said he definitely identified a photograph as that of the man who did the shoot-: mg. Asked whether the accused-re-sembled that man, he said it -was hard for him to recognise the man now as the man he saw was cleanshaven.

Buckley was asked to step down from the dock to enable John William Heaps, a confectioner, to obtain n better view of his height. Bnc-kley demurred. “Ho can see me quite well from .where he is.” said the prisonerJudge Was Icy directed the constable in the dock to bring Buckley out, but after some hesitation Buckley limped down the steps and walked, towards the witness-box.

Heaps said the height was the same, but the a.ccused was not as gross in the liody. Looking at a photograph handed up by Mr. Book. Heaps said, “That’s the man I saw at Glen ferric."

WHAT A WOMAN PAW

Nancy Beatrice Ashton, who .said she lived next door t-o a- house occupied by Leslie ( “Squizzy”) Taylor in 1023, said that on the day of the murder she saw Angus Murray and :v short, stout man. leave Taylor’s house in a motor car. driven by a young man. After surveying Buckley in the dock for a minute, she said. “The man'l saw had a round face, and a red complexion.” She said Buckley was of similar build, hut the man she saw was heavier and clean-shaven. She could not- recall his face. and. when shown two photographs, said that neither was like the shorter man. .

Mrs. Ashton said she saw Murray and the short- man return about lunch-time. Later, she looked over the fence and saw Murray, Taylor. Ida Pender, and tlie short man. Murray was. burning something that looked like a suitcase.

Judge Was ley having ruled that Mr. Berriman’s dying depositions were admissible with certain reservations. Detective Sub-Inspector Clugsfon related that Mv. Beni man had identified Murray and Buckley from a photograph. This was produced at-' Murray’s trial, and then put away, iwitli the records. but had since been. lost.

Clugston said that a photograph now produced was a; print from the same negative as the. photo which Mr Berriman had identified.

Buckley was found guilty and sentenced to death.