THE PUKEKAWA MURDER.

Waipa Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 1008, 19 October 1920, Page 5

THE PUKEKAWA MURDER.

BLIDESCE AGAINST ACCUSED. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. At the trial of Thorn, charged with the murder of a settler named Eyre at Pukekawa, John Giles Eyre, aged 12 years, corroborated the evidence of his elder brother as to going for help on the night of the murder, During the school holidays he noticed an unusual friendship between his mother and accused, and he saw accused kissing her on different occasions, even after his father had returned. Witness corroborated the previous evid»ence about actions indicating that accused spied on Mr and Mrs Eyre after the household had retired at night. Dora Millicent Eyre stated that; after the shooting on 24th August she heard a horse galloping over the bridge below the house, and she heard her mother say, “ You had better go out? by the front door. I heard someone running round to the back, and it will be safer to go out at the front.” Andrew Matthew Shugar detailed a conversation which took place between W. Taylor, licensee, and accused at the Makau Hotel on 30th August. This was to the effect that accused, in addressing Taylor, said, “What do you think will happen, Bill?” Taylor replied, “I don’t know, Sam, but the police are bound to get someone over it.” Accused then said, “By if they get me I’ll drag some other into it; there’s someone nearer the rope’s end than they think they are.”

After further evidence had been taken thq case was adjourned till today.