THE POMAHAKA MURDER.
Matson Committed for Trial, and the Girl Clark Discharged, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, July 18. The charge against Carl Matson and Hannah Bertha Clark of having murdered Mary Matson was continued at Lawrence to-day. Dr Niooll, in cross-examination, said that death might have been caused by strangulation, drowning or anything. Dr, Sutherland said there was nothing in tho body as he saw it, or tho history of the case as he had hea;d it, to enable him to say what caused death. Mr Hawkins, S.M., said: I have made up my mind clearly and distinctly on tho evidence I have heard to commit Matson for trial on the charge of wilful murder. As to Bertha Clark, there is certainly no evidence whatever to justify her committal. Whether she had any connection with the thing afterwards, I do not think there is sufficient to justify me in saying anything, and she must bo discharged. Charles Johnston, rabbiter at Clydevalo, in his evidence in this case, said that Mrs Matson was very bad tempered, and often used very bad language to Matson. She was a regular Tartar, and ho used to pity Matson. He had seen the pair quarrel, but had never seen Matson ill-treat her.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2876, 20 July 1896, Page 2
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207THE POMAHAKA MURDER. New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2876, 20 July 1896, Page 2
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