THE BURWOOD MURDER.
BOAKES AGAIN REMANDED. I CHRISTCHURCH. August 12. A further remand till August 26 was made to-day of Charles William Boakes, aged 37, the taxi-driver, against whom stand two charges—one of murder- Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., presided at the sitting of tho Magistrate's Court. The charges were that on or about June 15, at Burwood, near Christchurch, he murdered Ellen Gwendoline Isobel Scarff, and that at Christchurch on or about May 16, 1927, he unlawfully supplied a noxious drug—to wit, ergot—to Ellen Gwendoline Isobel Scarff, knowing that the drug was intended to be unlawfully used. A large number of people waited at the court at 9 a.m., 'and again at 10 a.m., to see Boakes. but the court was held at the Police Station at 9 a.m.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3831, 16 August 1927, Page 49
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