PARCELLING THE CORPSE.
This youth added that some time after the murder had been eommitttd Mestorino had come into the workshop and sent him out to buy wrapping and string. “I couldn’t say no to him, could I?” he demanded somewhat truculently of the judge. In reply to further;, questions, the witness said: “When he gave me the order M. Mestorino turned to his sister-in-law to ask her how much wrapping I should buy, and she said: 'Oh, seven or eight yards.’ ” Later in the afternoon the witness had entered the office and seen the corpse all parcelled up and tied with string. A third 'witness, a workman of 40, said he had gone forward to intervene, but his employer had warned him off, saying: “This fellow is o thief.” Like the others, he had heard the victim’s appeals for pity. “For pity let me live., You may take all we’ve got.” And so on through the' list. In explanation of their silence, and even perjury, they had alike the same plea. “I didn’t want to be drawn into it.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3832, 16 August 1928, Page 1
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180PARCELLING THE CORPSE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3832, 16 August 1928, Page 1
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