MAHON TRIAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 July 1924, Page 7

MAHON TRIAL.

FURTHER. EVIDENCE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received July 19, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. A feature of to-day’s evidence in the Mahon trial was a stateemnt by Ethel Duncan, one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution, who was recalled and cross-examined. She said that she observed heavy bruises on Mahon’s shoulders and arm s when she was living with him at Crumbles a couple of days after the murder was supposed to have been committed. Dr. Spilsbury gave evidence that he was unable to assign the definite cause of death, hut it could not have been the result of Miss Kaye falling and striking her head on a. coal scuttle. Mahon gave evidence which was mainly a recapitulation of the statements to the police. He said the deceased was passionately in love with him and wanted him to leave his wife. She gave him a number of £IOO notes in payment of her share in their joint speculation in francs. He cashed these under a false name, because he believed that a transaction in his own name would compromise him with his wife and force their separation. While explaining the quarrel at Crumbles, which led to Kaye’s death, Mahon collapsed in the dock and it was some minutes before he recovered. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.