PICTON TRAGEDY
| MURDER ALLEGATION LENGTHY EVIDENCE (Per Press Association.) .BLENHEIM, this day. The trial of Edward Tarrant, who is charged with the murder at Pie-ton on November 3, 1931, of an old man named James Flood, was continued today. The evidence up to luncheon was a dreary reiteration of transactions to which the witnesses, mostly "tradesmen or salesmen, deposed, as to' the accused cashing notes of large denominations and old issue, some of them having rusty marks and pinmnrks upon them similar to notes allegedly stolen from the deceased when lie was murdered. The' Crown brought lengthy evidence traversing those transactions, and also traced back for a number of years amounts .paid to the accused for work done by him, and the denominations of notes paid to him when cheques were cashed. The 'Crown endeavored to prove the accused’s sudden accession to wealth after the murder of Flood.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 6
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148PICTON TRAGEDY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 6
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