CROWN’S CASE ENDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17948, 28 November 1932, Page 9

CROWN’S CASE ENDS

ALLEGED MURDER POLICE WITNESSES’ EVIDENCE (Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. 'The Flood murder trial entered on the sixth day with the examination of Detective Jarrold, who said he asked flic accused where lie got tlie notes. The accused replied tlia't he had been saving them up for years. He had received notes when the' had cashed cheques received from firms for wood supplied. The money was- hidden in a .chocolate box under t he kitchen floor of liiri house. That -accounted for the stains and dampness. After a further examination by Inspector Ward, the accused had said he found the money in a wallet under a hedge between the croquet lawn and Miss Williams’ house. This was shortly after Christmas. The wallet contained about £3lO. He thought after he had .spent Home that it might he Floods’ money, and lie got frightened and .so made false stilt cm cuts (to the police. When the accused was tohl that he would be charged with the murder of Flood, he said: “I didn’t do it. Cross-examined, Detective Jarrold said no bloodstains 'had been found on the exhibits 'taken from the accused’s house. Witness put in a. statement ‘by Leonard Tarrant, to the effect that on the night of November 8 he attended a Boys’ Club meeting at tlie Sunday school and was in the room till 9 j).m. or 9.80 p.m. when Hunt told ’him his father wanted 'him, and he assisted his father to paddock his horse in a paddock near the school, and then ■they walked home together. Sub-Inspector Ward’s evidence was corroborative of .that of Detective .Jarrold in regard to the examination of the accused. Just prior td 'hid arrest, when asked if lie had any -more money, the accused said: “I have no more.” Witness searched an overcoat of the accused and found a £2O note in the lining, rolled up small. The accused said: “That’s the last of them.” This concluded the ease for the Crown.