MURDER TRIAL OF ROUSE
BURNT MOTOR-CAR MYSTERY. CONTENTIONS OF THE DEFENCE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, London, January 28. In the Rouse murder trial Mr. Finmore, defending, urged that there was no case to go to the jury. Mr. Justice Talbot declared that that was an impossible contention. Mr. Finmote said that the prosecution had not suggested a motive for the crime. It was apparent that the vic-; tim was unknown, and with no quarrel and no grudge against the prisoner. The case was so flimsy, unsubstantial, uncertain and inconclusive that a jury could not convict Rouse. The case was adjourned.
William Rouse, a commercial traveller, owned the baby ear in which the body of a man was found early one morning last December. The car was reduced to a heap of smouldering and twisted iron, and the body was so badly burned that it was impossible to identify it. So far, the identity of the murdered man has not been discovered. Rouse/was arrested as a suspect, and was subsequently charged with murder.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1931, Page 7
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