ALLEGED MURDER

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 29 August 1929, Page 9

ALLEGED MURDER

! AN AUCKLAND -CASE. i AFFRAY AT FRONT DOOR. ■CASE FOR THE POLICE. (By Telegraph --Preew Aaeoelatiiin.; AUCKLAND, Aug. 29. At the Police Court, George ,Carney, aged 34, a labourer, was charged that on August 22 last he murdered Thomas Levy, a middle-aged man, a .labourer employed by the I'letcher Construction company. The charge arose out of an affray in a Nelson Street ’house. Wnen lie! was removed from the house by an anumlance Levy was bleeding from a wound in the groin, and lie died Before his arrival at hospital. There was a wound in the right side and a tourniquet had been applied. Dr. Gilmour, patho.ogist, tsaiil that in addition to the wound m Levy’s groin, about 21 inches deep, which had severed the femoine artery, there were two knife wounds on the left forearm. One wound had a cut one-tenth of an inch into the bone.

The police produced ail old clasp kune with a blade about fi-e inches long and ground to a point, with which ,J)r. Gilmour said the wounds described could have been caused. George Frederick Cole said he was in the cottage on August 2 with Levy Garmody and a man named Gal lot. There were two women visitors after tea; they were call-led Lavima and Hetty. Witness had brought home six small bottles of stout and a rigger. Caff ray came in the back door and asked witness to come out. Witness refused. Oaffrey said: “All right; I'll get you." ’Caffrev then went away. There was a knock at the door. Levy opened it and said to the man that “You’re not cooling in here, get out.” The man said, “I’m coming in.” The man was the accused. Caffrey tried to push in and Levy tried to push him .out. Witness heard Levy cry out, “Dave, .I'm stabbed.” Witness said that lie could not say whether it was Gaffney who had co-mo bade. He did not know the other man at the door.

Mr Dickson (counsel for the accused) : “I’ll have that taken down, please. ’' Air Meredith, for the Crown : How much liquor have you had this morning?. Witness: Oh! A couple of pints.

Air Meredith said that it was obvious that witness was not in a fit state to continue bis. evidence. The best th ing was that he should'be stood down to have time to recover. Air Outten, S.M., ordered the accused to leave the witness box, saying that somebody could keep am eye on him. Witness (cheerfully) : Right oh! Lavinia Foster, a single woman, agsd 30. said that she and ai friend, Betty Rusluworth, were in the cottage on the night in question. Both said they could not identify the man who c-ame to the door.;

(Proceeding.)