Storemari's Story

NZ Truth, Issue 1147, 24 November 1927, Page 9

Storemari's Story

went ifitd , the brdOm, did he go into a pathway or into the Solid brdom?;— He W*e"«t IU the Solid broom. He dashed Straight into It. •*•'-. Arid you never saw him again ■■?— N6< Would this' matt lie about riiy Build? — Your fetiiid, but shorter thafi ydti are. You realize' the tremenddtis importance - of your evidence itt a trial 6f this kihd?^-! do, sir. Ahd you also realize thd feffeCt it wotild haVC if you told lie's? — Yes, sir. Ahd What ydti HayS told abb'tit the man kneeling by the body— is that true?— YeS. * \ . ' ' ' • '■ A . . When you saw that rrianv Was he , wearing art overcOatf—No, but ./ho was wearing an ordinary jacketcoat. Evidence* concerning the 'Wristlet Watch found on the dead girl's Wrist, and Which Had Stepped at 12/27, Wai then given* by dart MatsSfi, a Watchmaker of §6 years' e*g6ridhoe* The watch, said MatsSfl, was considerably damaged, but an inspection of it told him that when it- had stopped it could have gone for a further , thirty hours had it ndt been srMihed: David Davidson, a storcfiian, toid hoW he discovered a blodd-stained heavy 1 Spanner m a gorse btish •a- few* yards from the scene of the nitirder on the day following the dlScOVdry 0f the body; } ; This s^a* finer was harid"e*<j by Davidson to ißetective Eade, who Wai searchind the scrub at im • time. ', . ' Eade, from the fc ox? stated that he j bad tafeett 4h§ ; Jpafih^r._ td. the finger-! print department m Wellington fori examinatl6U; , ' , ' ._ ■" v.-. '"'' "But no fingerprints wm fauna on it," said the* mmm-; v ~ ! The spanner" 'Was* l&ter Haftded to Detective N. jti&tig6s , 6ny wh6 tdok it to every faotdfyV fdUndrT and garage m Christehufdn. •. ": „ ■ . Vji , He SnOWSd it W 1625. persdns, but none ree&gnteed It df" identified It m any Way. . . .■ „. t . . Nor Was LatigSs'6n able t6 See anywhere another spanner Similar" to the one fotind at the §eSfl§ 6f IRii crime, so the detective told the cdUft. ' Lawyer T?h6mas Wasted no time on - cross-examinlhg these" Wi£ne&Ses"j and it Was not until GeOfgS Htinter McCanrti Staff gergeaht^Majory. 'N.Z. Forces, Wa§ called that any point of x special Importance fcroppea 1 UpY Two military overcoats? Including the bloodstained coat foUHd oh June 28 by a iabdrer named LeVersedge In tHe Scrub at BUr-, Wood about a mile frdirT-tHe 1 scene of the crime, Were shoWn .to iVfeCahn. ' ' •

At the request of. Lawyer Thomas, Mccann left the ho* and measured both eaata on a table m the body of the court. The result df this rneastii»ement Was that bdth coats— apart freffi a, shortening ef 6n§ of thern^-wefe said hy MfiGanh to be practically the* sanie size. ,

A number of military brass buttons found ih Boakes' effects by detective Lauge^n were also shown to McOanh,