Important Additional Evidence.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7067, 20 January 1891, Page 3

Important Additional Evidence.

SA.TSAK FLANAGAN IN A FIT During Chief Detective O'Connor's cvi- ' dence, which was being given about 11.20 , a.m., the accused Sarah Jane Flanagan went j into a numt excitable fit, and it was with '> considerable _ difficulty that silence was j restored. As it was, on the recommendation i of Dr Symes, at a later stage, the girl had ' to bo removed for a few minutes into the ! fresh air. When she heard the Chief - detective give his evidence respecting the '■ blood on the maroon dress (marked P), \ and her uls ter (marked Q), she threw : herself oS the chair on which she waß seated, and cried out " Oh, i there's no blood on my clothes, : Seeing her brother behind her she said, , " On » Jacfc! lefc me kiss my brother. Oh, I J ac^ dear, there's no blood on my clothes, * If they were telling the truth I would not mind. There's such lies, such lies. Oh, don't tell lies on me. Do have it analysed." After a shorfc P aUße she a g ain Baid » " Oh » . don't tell such lies on me. They know ; t he y are hes - There s no blood on jmy clothes. He said he d have it analysed. He said he'd have it analysed • a S ain * come here. Wh y didn>fc he have it; done ■"' , , , . „ The Court by this time was paralyned, and . aa tne Wlt n«3B could not be heard, Mr j Stringer advised that she should be removed. • Mr Weatenra said the proceedings must j wait tm ahe returned if she went out. | The brother of the accused was here : requested to leave the Court, which he did. Afte r being quiet for a while, she again said : " oh » tne ließ > * cannot stay here ; I won 't Bta y here - oh . Jaok - there is no blood on my clothes. I murdered no child. I done nothing, ma. What are the police | bringing out? There's no blood on my clotheß." I In addition to his former evidence, S where the Chief Detective said that there ' appeared to be a spot of blood 'on the lady's ulster which he had g°t out of Sarah Flanagan's room, he ! to-day remarked that in addition to the ! wild barley seeds on the red and white ' shawls (exhibits L and N), he had found ' some on the ulster. There are a lot of ! similar Beeds growing on section 11, in ' Gloucester street, where the head of the child was found. __ Inspector Penaer, Constable D.llon, Detective Campbell and Mrs Freeman gave their lengthy evidence as on the previ°us occasion. Just when Mrs Freeman ™w handling the red shawl, the accused Sar ah Flanagan stood up and screamed out"-" 1 hey took it off my baby; they took it off my baby. Oh, let me see it once more. Then when the police were folding her and persuading her to sit down quietly, she said, " Oh, Mr Stringer, tell them I never murdered my baby. Let Jme go out; do let me go out of here. Tell everybody I never murdered my baby, and further remarks, which were in audible. » arm ? th e course of Mrs Fraeman s evidence, she was asked the question whether there were any barley seeds in the shawls when they left her house. To this Mrs Freeman replied that both shawls were perfectly free from see,ds, and there was no blood on them either. The Court adjourned at 1.27 till 2.30 p.m. After the luncheon adjournment, the process of repeating the evidence which has already been given in full before the Coroner and his Jury was again taken. To the lay mind this seems to be a most cumbrous and unnecessary proceeding, but it appears it has to be done in compliance with the Act. The expeditious manner in which Mr Walker, the Clerk to the Bench, takes the depositions, aa compared with the slow and unsatisfactory manner in which it is done by other officials in Chrißtchnroh and elsewhere, makes amends however for the long delay. la addition

to Alice Emma Freeman's previous evidence she stated that Bhe had seen the child's head at Dr Syme's, and idontified it hb the head of Miss Flanagan's baby by its light, curly hair and general appearance. Her elder sister Anna aleo recognised the head as that of the child that the Flanagans had taken away. Mr J. E. Tulley, in addition to his former evidence, said that there was a pate at the corner of the East Belt and Gloucester ; street, where he had seen the two women j standing on the morning of Jan. 6, as be i wag walking towards the Lyttellon Times ' office. He had since seen the gate, and had i seen some spots on it like spots of blood. I Joseph Sergeant added to his testimony ; that the two women he saw with Constable j Flanagan were short and wore dark clothes. It was early in the week between i Jan. 4 and Jan. 10, and between 2 and 2.30 a.m.

Frederick Allen, the cabman, identified j the two boxes that had been brought from ! Wellington by Detective Campbell, as the I two he had taken to the Kail*ay Station ! on Jan. 8. Mies Flanagan did not catch ! the train that evening. i George Thomas Cassell said that when ! Mrs and Miss Flanagan left the house on I the afternoon of Jan. 9, Miss Flanagan said ■ that she was going to Riccarton to keep a i lady company, and she wished him " Goodbye."

Mra Julia Higga.in repeating her former evidence, said she was not quite sure whether when Mra Flanagan spoke to her about the child on Dec. 14 she said she would kill it or murder it.

Misß Flanagan, (looking at her mother) "Oh, tut, tut."

To Mr Pender: She made use of one word or the other.

Detective Neil and Sergeant Bcigza repeated their former evidence verbatim et literatim, with due official preciaeness. In Constable Flanagan'a record of duty there were no entries of any sort since Jan. 1, and none of being called out on the morning of Jan. 6.