TAMAKI MYSTERY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 30, 22 January 1929, Page 5

TAMAKI MYSTERY

DEATH OF ELSIE WALKER INQUEST RESUMED. CORONER TO GIVE VERDICT ON FRIDAY. (Per Press Association.! Auckland, Jan. 22. The inquest concerning the death of Elsie Walker was resumed before Mr F. K. Hunt, the Coroner, this morning. Mr Northcroft, counsel for the Bayly family, addressing the Court, said that the inquiry had vacillated between a murder trial an inquest and a departmental inquiry. The whole matter had been made conspicuous by a certain section of the Press. There had been suggestions that a foul murder had been committed, and this had stirred up the public imagination and interest, but there was no evidence of murder. There was a large body of the evidence which showed that a mur dec had not been committed, and could not have been committed in the circumstances. There was no evidence of strangulation and the doctor excluded the possibility of interfer ence. There was no sign of violence except the small bruise on the top of the girl’s head. There was the definite evidence of Mrs Bayly that Elsie Walker had bruised her head on the Saturday. Mr Meredith, Crown Counsel, made very brief comment, after which the Magistrate said that be would give his verdict at 10 a.m. on Friday.