TARDY EVIDENCE
DEATH SENTENCE TO STAND
(Australian Press Association.)
, SYDNEY, June 10.
The Minister of Justice, Mr Martin, in the N.S.W. Assembly to-day, mentioned the case of James Massey, who is to be hanged next Monday. Mr Martin said that lie had received a statutory declaration from Mrs Elizabeth Bellingham, who declared that she was inside Stead’s garage, and had witnessed the shooting, which had so upset her that she had since been unable to tell her story. Consequently she had remained in the 'background. She described the shooting as accidental. Stead had made a grab at Massey. He seized Massey’s wrist. The revolver went off.
Mr Martin said the detectives had investigated the woman’s story, which was so at variance with known and undoubted facts that the Government was unable to place the slightest credence in it. Consequently, the law would be allowed to take its course. He said there was abundant evidence that Massey fired a shot at least two feet from Stead’s body. Therefore it was deliberate.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1936, Page 5
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