CHARGE OF MURDER
TRIAL AT BLENHEIM
Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Nov. 22. It will probably be a week or more before the Crown case is completed in which Edward Tarrant is charged with the murder, at Picton, on November 3, 1931, of an old man named James Flood. Mr Macassey, Crown Prosecutor, in the course of a lengthy address to the jury, stressed the points which would be brought out m the evidence on which the Crown principally relied. lie spoke for two hours after which the Crown proceeded to call evidence. Three witnesses were called, a surveyor, a police photographer and Constable Condon, officer in charge at Picton. The latter detailed the finding of the body and conversations with accused and produced Police Court records showing that accused had been sued repeatedly and was in a parlous financial position. The evidence was on the lines of that given in the Lower Court.
The Court adjourned at 5.30 till ten o'clock to-morrow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 305, 23 November 1932, Page 9
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162CHARGE OF MURDER Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 305, 23 November 1932, Page 9
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