SYDNEY INQUIRY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 195, 17 July 1935, Page 2

SYDNEY INQUIRY

ANOTHER OFFICER CALLED. (United Press Association—By Electric • Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 16, 1.50 p.m. \ ' SYDNEY. July 16. " The inquiry into the alleged death of James Smith was resumed to-day. Detective-Sergeant Allmond. corroborated the evidence given by Detective Caiman yesterday regarding the meeting of Patrick Brady and Reginald Holmes, when the latter allegedly denied knowing Brady, whereas Brady allegedly said he knew Holmes. Detective Allmond said that on May 18, Brady, who was in a cell at the police station, intimated that ho desired to communicate some information to Dotective-Sergeant Mathews. Brady thereupon made a statement, which was taken down in shorthand, but Brady declined to sign or initial the notes. At a later date Brady, at his own request, was shown two statements made by Holmes. After reading the first statement Brady said it was all lies, hut admitted that the second, statement was correct. He seemed visibly affected after reading the second statement. Holmes’s first statement was taken on May 17 and the second on May 29.