MURDER TRIAL
MISS SALMON GIVES EVIDENCE. P.A . WELLINGTON, May 11. Evidence was given to-day by Hazel Josephine Salmon, the principal witness in the trial of John Sidney Crawford, seaman, aged 26, for the murder of two United States Marine at 17 Terrace Gardens. Wellington. in the early hours of January 7.
Miss Salmon, aged 20, is still a hospital patient, having received several wounds in the shooting in which two men lost their lives. Her left arm was in a splint .and she had a dressing on her, throat. She gave evidence seated in an armchair on the floor of the Supreme Court, a nurse sitting at her side. Her whispered replies were highly magnified by the Court’s sound amplification system. The adjournment interrupted her evidence.
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Grey River Argus, 12 May 1943, Page 4
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