WOMAN’S STORY OF MURDER
ATTEMPT TO CLEAR CONDEMNED MAN. POLICE INCREDULOUS. (United Press Assn-—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.15 p.m.) Sydney, June 10, The Minister of Justice (Mr Martin) in the Assembly to-day mentioned the case of James Leighton Massey, who will be hanged next Monday for the murder of Norman Stead at a service station at Darlinghurst on February 10. Mr Martin said that he had received a statutory declaration from Mrs Elizabeth Bellingham, who declared that she was inside Stead’s garage and witnessed the shooting, which so upset her that she had since been unable to tell her story, and consequently remained in the background. She described the shooting as accidental. “Stead made a grab at Massey and seized his wrist; the revolver went off,” she declared. Mr Martin said that detectives had investigated the woman’s story, which was so at variance with the known and undoubted facts that the Government was unable to place the slightest credence in it, and consequently the law would be allowed to take its course.
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Southland Times, Issue 22913, 11 June 1936, Page 5
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171WOMAN’S STORY OF MURDER Southland Times, Issue 22913, 11 June 1936, Page 5
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