CHARGE OF MURDER
RE-TRIAL OF HEfTA GARDNER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 31. The re-trial of Heta Fred Gardner, aged 15, on a charge of murdering an old man, George Crewe, at Ruatangata last May was begun to-day. Tho jury disagreed at the first trial and since then a statement made to tho police by the accused has been held by the Court of Appeal to be inadmissible as evidence. The acting Crown Prosecutor told tho jury to-day that while the accused had not been declared insane he had been judged not altogether normal. Perhaps he could be best described as feeble-minded, but the question for the jury was whether he committed the crime, or not. There thejr responsibility ended.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 271, 31 October 1932, Page 6
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