Statement To Press

Northern Advocate, 25 May 1939, Page 8

Statement To Press

Where did the reporters get the information from? —Not from the police. You suggest you had no interviews with any reporters?—Plenty of interviews, but no information.

His Honour asked how the questions asked could help the court in the case. Mr. Terry said that statements appeared in the press, apparently carrying the imprimatur of the police. Mr! Terry (to witness): There was a statement, for example, in one of the papers, that you were inquiring into the interference with graves in the Auckland province. Did you see that? —Yes.

Where could they get that statement from but the police?—-From quite a number of people'. His Honour: I fail to see what this cross-examination is directed toward. Mr. Terry: It is directed this way—there were statements in the paper which seemed to Talbot to have come from the police, which indicated that serious doubts were being cast on the death of McKay. Mr. Meredith objected to the questions, since, he said, questions should be relevant to the inquiry, and that inquiry only. Theories Mr. Terry (to witness): There was no doubt, was there, that the papers made positive assertions?— They seemed to get the information, but not from the police. Witness agreed that some of the published reports were against the interests of the police and the accused. He had also read that there was a theory that McKay might have wandered out of the bach and left it, unknown to Talbot.

Witness said it was not just a subterfuge when he asked Talbot to come to the police station to identify the ring. Atfer the way Talbot reacted to his questions it was obvious that he knew about Patrick Henry Shine.

Mr. Terry: You had no right at all to have interrogated Talbot as you did that day.

Witness; I say we had. I put it that you went down Queen Street to arrest Talbot? —It is untrue. It is very significant, isn’t it, that you arrested him three minutes after his arrival?—He was arrested on instructions from the inspector.

The court adjourned until today

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