STILLWATER EXPLOSION

Grey River Argus, 4 June 1937, Page 2

STILLWATER EXPLOSION

RE-TRIAL OF MAURICE MOOREThe re-trial of Maurice Mooie begun in the Supreme Coup; a .' mouth yesterday afternoon before hi.Sohou/Mr Justice Northcro < and . 'jury of twelve, on a chaigc of alte e 111 With f 'the exception of one u’Knes/. the Crown case was almost when the Coiir.t ad F a,IIL J o’clock last evening until H) o c ■this morning- eha d I Maurice Mooic, uj, « ( ;ii, v .,f Pr I that at Arnold River, near St iHuate n/March 5, 1937, he wilfully damaged a six-roomed house va umj -it £5OO, the property ot -an Deen Brosnan. .The case was hea-d in the Magistrate’s Court at G in um ]ien . lC (. llse d mouth on Ma \ \ d ’ was committed pleaded uot guiltj and f °Acwuil had pleaded nol guiU.V to the chinge at the first d h The Crown case was eonduc c - y Mr'F A. Kitchingham and Mi J- • Hannan appeared for aeeused The following Common Jul \ empanuelled:—Allan Newman 'Baku (foreman) William Frnest Laicomb'., Hugh Blancbfield, Thomas O Donnell, Ralph James Plank, Benjamin I » da George Gregory Taylor. Mu-hue l A>< rbuld Brown. Leonard Mouritz. Scliac., John Leslie Pfitterson, Hugh Joseph Brown and Douglas Jarvis. Four prospective jurors were chai, lenged by Mr Hannan and four were ordered -to stand aside by the Crown prosecutor. • Similar evidence to that tendered, m the Magistrate’s Court and at the first hearing in the Supreme Court, was given by John Edgar Rose, photograph, er, who produced photographs of the destroved dwelling; James Deen Brosnan. IFiiblSc Works Department land purchase officer, of Wellington, owner of the dwelling, who described the litigation over the land and dwelling at. Arnold River, and o f accused’s alleged threats to destroy the building: Neil Ranisav, war pensioner, I’aroa, a former 'occupier of the dwellinghouse, own-|

ed by Brosnan; Alan McLean, who took over the lease ot the farm from Ramsay; Thomas -Steel Craig farmer, of Matai; Leslie Jackson, hardware salesman, employed by Ashby Bergh and Coy Ltd., 'Greymouth, who sold four pounds of gelignite, fuse and caps to accused o» tihe afternoon of the day on which the house was wrecked by an explosion; Detective.Scrgeant H. E. Kniglil, who made lh ( . inquiries into lhe case, and' who detailed his inter, views with accused, and produced a statement signed by accused.