ALLEGED MURDER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 September 1926, Page 9

ALLEGED MURDER

CHARGE AGAINST A WOMAN

LEGAL POINTS RAISED

(BY TELEGBAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. The murder charge: against Elizabeth Ann Wvlie, alias Neville (49), in respect to the death, of Elsie Davis, a married woman, on July 11, was continued to-day. Mr. Stephenson, for the accused, referred to the suppression, of the names of the girls, called a,s witnesses.. He said that there were serious interests in another direction than that of these girls—those of the accused. The result. of the name of one of the. girls being published before the suppression order was made, had led to the defence receiving information about her. which would be of the greatest assistance later on.. Mr. Maeassey, for the Crown, said that the Witnesses could- have no motive for giving false evidence; it wa,s against their own interests to give evidence at. all. Mr. Stephenson said that it had always been one of the principles of British justice that an accused should be given every opportunity and proceedings taken in the open light of day. Mr. Page, S.M., said he would consider the point and give his decision in the afternoon. . 1 Mr. Stephenson also again raised the point that the dying woman’s depositions were taken on, an abortion charge, not one of murder'. Mr. Page, replying to Mr. -Stephenson, said he lrad admitted the depositions to prove other charges that could be laid and which fell within the case in the Supreme .Court. He had not only the question of murder to consider, but whether there was, any other indictable on which the accused could be ‘sent to trial.