MOUAT CASE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 May 1925, Page 9

MOUAT CASE.

TO-DAY’S PROCEEDINGS

PUBLIC INTEREST MANIFESTED

EVIDENCE FOR. THE CROWN

(BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 13.

There was again a large crowd of spectators when the trial of Frederick Peter Mouat, who was charged with the murder of his wife, was continued. The accused followed the evidence with keen interest. Lucy Prosser, a married woman, a neighbour, gave evidence on lines similar to that given in the lower court as to the party at her house on February 19; also as to .seeing washing on the line at later dates and smoke coming from the dining-room chimney, and also as to Mouat’s statement about going to see if his wife was in Camaru or Dunedin.

Cross-examined, Mrs Prosser said she did not smell anything like burning flesh from the fire on the section. Witness had seen the trunks of clothes which Mrs Mount had bought in London. She had not taken those into consideration when accounting for Mrs Mount’s clothes on the Saturday. She had noticed a cut. in Mount’s arm near the wrist. Mrs Mount had been depressed at times. Detective Thompson gave evidence as to the finding of the bones. Cross-examined, he said that all the bones except those in .the grate were found in the dug part of the section, or in a large heap of refuse. Professor Gowland, Otago University, gave evidence that the police forwarded to him thirty-one bones, which he considered to be human. The collar-hone in the collection was broken, but two parts fitted. All the bones, bad been burned.