A NEW WITNESS.

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

A NEW WITNESS.

Neil Jonson, a cabdriver, living at No. 6, Wells street, Linwood, said that he frequently drove down Gloucester street towards the city. Sometimes between sir and seven times a day. Enew No. 11 Gloucester street. On Jan. 1, I B aw the two' female prisoners at that house somewhere between 1 and 8 p.m. I could fix the time by an entry made in my book, through a customer keeping me waiting. I saw the two women there.

The accused Sarah Flanagan again got excited, and called out, " Oh, speak up, speak plain, let me hear what he has to Bay. I was not in the garden." The witness resumed : I Baw the women before I got to the place, and when I got abreast of it I saw who it was, as I knew them. I did not see what they were doing. I have no doubt about them. I have known them for some time. Dr Symes, who had not been in attendance when called in the morning, was remonstrated with by Mr Westenra for not being present when wanted. He repeated hia former evidence. He could not nay whether the head had been severed from the body before or after death. The hair was fair and of a curly nature. At 4.10 p.m., Mr Pender said that was the evidence in the case.

Mr Walker read the usual caution. Mr Stringer said that as far as the two female accused were concerned, their defence would be reserved, but with respect to Flanagan, he submitted that there was not a particle of evidence on which a primA facie case could be made out which would warrant the Court in sending him for trial. In such a ease it was necessary that sufficient evidence should be adduced to bring the accused in either as a principal or an accomplice. In a lengthy address, in which Mr Stringer reviewed several of the •witnesses' evidence, he argued that there wa3 nothing to connect Flanagan with the crime.