WHALL STABBING CASE.
i j IN FIDELITY SUGGESTIONS. j i THE WIFE'S TESTIMONY. | WELLINGTON, This Day. j At the Barnes murder trial Mrs Wliall said that she went to Palmerston with , Barnes and there met Wliall who threa- ' toned that if she did not return to him he would throw himself under the train. She went to Auckland with him and there he thrashed her. His Honour a;ked what this evidence had to do with the crime alleged. Was it given ;is a motive of the crime? | The Crown Prosecutor: "This is an j attempt to get the sympathy of the jury and to blacken the character of a man who is dead and not here to answer.'' The evidence was continued 011 these lines, counsel for the accused stating that he was endeavouring to refut. 1 the suggestion that Whall was fighting fov his wife. j His Honour said it seemed an extraordinary way of doing it. He would | not stop the evidence going to the . I but the procedure was most improper, i Counsel's addresses are proceeding, j —Pi'ess Assn. i
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Northern Advocate, 6 August 1924, Page 5
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