NOTYRE ACQUITTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18581, 15 December 1934, Page 15

NOTYRE ACQUITTED

TRUNK MURDER CASE UNDERWORLD DR AM A (Received Dec. 15, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 14. Jack Notyre was acquitted of the murder of Violette Kayo and his immediate discharge ended a squalid panorama of the underworld. Mr. Norman Birke.tt, defending counsel, contended that the absence ot any suggestion of motive was a vital omission, destroying the Crown s. case. Notyre, when the foreman of the jury' spoke t<he words implying his freedom, seemed dazed and overcome, and placed his hand' to his head. “You are discharged,” said Judge Branson. Only then did Notvre seem to realise the situation. He lifted his head, gave a sigh, and left the dock. The judge, summing up, had ordered accused’s acquittal it the jury was not satisfied that a blow on the head caused the death of Kaye. He emphasised the fact of the absence of blood-stained clothes identifiable as having been worn by Notvre when Kaye died. He added that the jury must be satisfied that Notyre’s hand struck the fatal blow, but' was it tlie action of nu innocent man to nail up in a cupboard the corpse of the woman lie loved though it was not yet cold, instead of summoning a doctor to try lo resuscitate her.

The judge, in the presence of a huge crowd striving to get. a glimpse of Notvre, drove off two minutes alter the’ delivery of the verdict amid the customary fanfare of trumpets.