THE WELLINGTON TRAGEDY.
BARNES FURTHER REMANDED. WELLINGTON, May 14. Joseph Barnes, aged 31, who is accused of the murder of Walter John Whalls, was again before the court to-day. The police ashed for a further remand as they would not he able to go on with the case until the Government Bacteriologist’s report was to hand. Mr Stevenson, for the accused, said that the application was rather indefinite. In the Cooper case the report look two months to obtain. The police should not wait until a considerable time elapsed before going on with a case. The only light which the bacteriologist’s evidence could throw was whether certain blood stains were human blood or other blood. Chief-detective Kemp said he hoped that the report would be ready in a fortnight. The Magistrate adjourned the case for a week
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Otago Witness, Issue 3662, 20 May 1924, Page 3
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