THE DOUGLAS MURDER CASE
;Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, August 9. At the evidence in the Douglas murder case, witnesses deposed to the finding of the body in the creek and to the movements of the prisoner aa outlined in the opening statement of prosecuting counsel. A point was made of the fact that there was only one shoe on the corpse, the.other one being found op a ridge above the creek, from which it waa impossible for the deceased to have, rolled while in a fit.
Dr Buteman, who was called to see the body and who attended the subsequent examination of the remains after four months' interment, said he still adhered to the belief thafe the woman -died from drowning and that the abrasions on her head were post mortem. There was no wound which would lead him to suppose the deceased was rendered insensible before drowning. It was possible, assuming the abrasions to have been caused during life, for a blow on that part of the head to have caused concussion of the brain. ;
The prisoner was committed for trial at the nest <;riminal sessions.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 10 August 1901, Page 3
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