THE SILVERSTREAM MURDER CASE.
(Psn United Fesss Association.) ' ■- ■ ■ ' Wellington, February 24. .The address to tha jury of Mr Jellicoe, counsel for the accused Philpott, lasted 10 hours; finishing Bhortly before 4- this afternoon. He said there were three facts which the Crown must prove—viz., that the body was Hawthorne's, that it was buried about the 7th September, and that the prisoner was the murderer. All that the Crown had succeeded in proving wM that Philpott had an opportunity of: committing the mvirder. Mr Jellicoe referred to a recent case iv which circumstantial evidence had resulted ia the wrongful conviction of two innocent men. The medical evidence, he said, proved that the body' had sot been dead more than 21 days. If Hawthorne had returned to Silverstreatn, after leaving there on the 7th September, and any mishap had there befallen him, what became olj all the evidence about the 7ch ? The accused was in gaol within 21 days of. the discovery 6f the body. The Crown had ieffc the jury both without proper identification of the body and without finding the cause of death.
The summing up by the judge was left until to-morrow morning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11046, 25 February 1898, Page 6
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194THE SILVERSTREAM MURDER CASE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11046, 25 February 1898, Page 6
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