MURDER IN GARAGE
WOMAN'S BELATED STORY VERSION NOT BELIEVED SYDNEY, June 10. The Minister of Justice, Mr. L. O. Martin, in the Assembly to-day, mentioned the case of James Massey, aged 27 years, who will be hanged next Monday for the murder of Mr. Norman Stead in a garage at Darlinghurst on February 10. Mr. Martin said he had received a statutory declaration from Mrs. Elizabeth Bellingham, who declared that she was inside Mr. Stead 'a garage and witnessed the shooting, which so upset her that she had sine© been, unable to tell her story and consequently remained in the background. She described the shooting as accidental. Mr. Stead, she said, made a grab at Massey, and seized his wrist, and the revolver went off.
Mr. Martiu said that detectives had investigated the woman's story, which was so much at variance with the known and undoubted facts, that the Government was unable to place the slightest credence in it. Consequently the law would be allowed to take its course.
Mr. Martin said there was abundant evidence that Massey fired a shot at least two feet from Mr. Stead's body. Therefore it was deliberate.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19038, 11 June 1936, Page 5
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