THE AUCKLAND MURDER

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11512, 7 October 1915, Page 6

THE AUCKLAND MURDER

FURTHERJVIDENCE. LABOURER'S ADMISSION. JP' lt Plll'sS AssOi TA'I'ION . Al ( KI.AM>, October 7. The inquest nil |hoina> I 'erry, milr<iep>d at ({amarama. was c<.utiuuen 10da>. Harold l'ilkin£i.on. a ueienbour, gave evider.ee that he will.e-.-ed will made be deceased, in which no mention was ,nado el hi* wife, (hi being mtormed thai if his wife were no! mentioned she 111 ii.' 111 be Jih'e i.» dispute the Will. O'e(■(Visor! a.iiro<Ml tb:U sbe V' given a. !ii'e interest in i' l "* property. (icrdou M Die 1 , el;, labourer, ga\ e. evidence thai, he was 01: irietuilv terms witn .Mr and .Mrs Perry. I'uder cross-evaminariei,. admitted thai .Mr-; I'errv nequenth came to his tent at Ra.nia.rama. when lv.- was alone, and that he- had cohabited with her. (to September '..'l he met her >;>y appointment. ami gave her ten shillings 10 go to rcv.ii. She J.o!d him that, her husband had been nasty. Witness, continuing, said that Mrs Perry told him rha.t owing to what the neighbours had said concerning the parentage of the child J.oomml, her husband had taken n dislike, to tho boy. Someone had told lorn that the child was like witness, and her husband had since been o.rue! to the child. "When witness Wild Mrs Perry that lie was going ti*» buy a. farm she said she might, visit him now and again. She once f,aid that she intended i.o leave her husband, and go to town. He had novelsupplied her with cartridges. He had given her .'fUs when slio stated that her husband had burned her clothes.