MEDICAL EVIDENCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 63, 1 March 1929, Page 7

MEDICAL EVIDENCE

ELSIE WALKER CASE CAUSE OF DEATH NOT KNOWN. POLICE SURGEON IN THE BOX. Auckland, Feb. 28. At the inquiry into police methods in the Elsie Walker case, Chief-De-tective Hammond said that the brief handed in to the Crown sdlicitor for inquest purposes was submitted to him for approval. The brief, as a whole, did not suggest death by foul P 1< Mr. Currie: It is based rather on the proposition outlined by the lnsutetor yesterday? Witness: 1 can t say how it was based. .. .. . a<. Your theory is similar to tiiat which the Inspector mentioned yesterday ?—Yes. 1 think he has stolen my theory. . . The Commissioner said that he had ii number of communications of venous sorts sent to him and he intended to question witness concerning the contents of some. One communication said that a member of the Thompson family at at.. Papamoa heard a car pass out from Bayly’s at one o’clock in the morning. “Was witness called at the inquest?’’ he asked. Witness: No. Do you know why?—Because it was definitely proved the car left much earlier. The mere fact that a woman heard a car pass her house was not of much importance. Your view was that it did not carry the matter further? —That was so. _ . * The Commissioner said it was also suggested the Tx?es and Mortons had seen an important witness in Papamoa on the night the girl disappeared. “Your enquiries don't suggest that?” he asked. Witness: Not at all. Witness indicated that another suggestion from Mi's. Douglas, concerning two men seen at Papatoetoe, had proved abortive. Another inourv made at the instance of a cart driver 'at Huntly. who had seen a man and a woman in a car. was also exploded. The car driver had been assisted by the informant to remove a tyre, but it was proved that the incident was three weeks before October 1.