ALLEGED MURDER
THE PICTQN TRAGEDY
TRIAL OF EDWARD TARRANT
(Per Press Association.)
BLENHEIM, last night
The trial at the Ijjupi'enie Court, before 11 is Honor Mr. Justice Blair, of Edward Tiui'iflit, who is charged with 'the' murder, at Picton, on November 3, 1931, of an old man named JTaiiieS Flood, Was Continued to-day. Mr. Maeassey, in the course of a lengthy address to the jury, stressed the points which would be brought out id the evidence on which J the Crown principally relied. He spoke for two hours, after which the Crown proceeded to call evidence.
Three witnesses were called, a sut veyol', a police photographer, and Con stable Condon, offi'cch' in charge at Pic tofi.
The latter detailed finding the body and his conversations with the accused, and produccid'Police Cotni records sh'dwing! ihnt 'tlie idddsed had booh sued repeatedly anil was in a parlous (innmid 1 position. The evidence was oh the lines of tliilt givhn iii the lower court. The court adjourned at 5.30 till 10 o’clock to-morrow morning.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17944, 23 November 1932, Page 10
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171ALLEGED MURDER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17944, 23 November 1932, Page 10
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