TRENK TRAGEDY
TRIAL OF ROBINSON RESUMED. London, June 8. The resumed hearing of the trunk murder charge was attended by the usual crush of fashionable women. The police gave evidence of the discovery of a used match stick which appeared to be discoloured with blood, in a waste-paper basket in Robinson’s office which was one of the certain circumstances leading to the arrest. Cross-examined, Margaret Moore, Robinson’s typist, was unable definitely to identify a duster found in the trunk as that used in the office. It was similar. She worked for Robinson from April 19 to May 4 when she left because she thought he was drinking. He was nervous. Defending counsel lengthily cross-exam-ined Sergeant Clarke on the reasons why Robinson was taken to the waiting room instead of direct to Inspector Cornish, especially in view of the fact that Robinson was given four days’ liberty after his first statement. Clarke denied there was anything unusual in this.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20200, 10 June 1927, Page 7
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