MINE TRUCKER IS CHARGED WITH MURDER OF HIS SISTER

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 November 1950, Page 6

MINE TRUCKER IS CHARGED WITH MURDER OF HIS SISTER

GREYMOUTH, Last Night (UAL— William Hainey Hillhouse, senr., gave evidence against his son, William Hainey Hillhouse, aged 20, a mine trucker, of Runanga, who was charged before Sir Erima Northcroft in the Supreme Court at Greymouth today with the murder of his sister, Margaret Rose Hillhouse, aged 18, a machinist, at their home in the early hour? of August 12.

Hillhouse senior said he had previous trouble with his son, and wher* the son returned home on the night in question from a public house he tola him he would “kick him out, bag and baggage.” Witness said he saw hi; son in a public house and told him to come home. They left the house together, but separated when they got outside. Witness reached hdme first, and told his wife and daughter that "he had enough of the son and I shall kick him out, bag and baggage.” When the the son came home he told him to go. , . Witness returned inside the house with Mr W. Pattinson, a neighbour, and shortiv afterwards his daughter left the sitting room, and he heard e shot. Pattinson restrained witness from leaving the room as witness was worked up, but he onened the sitting room door and saw his daughter lyin'* in front of him with a bullet wound in her face.

Cross-examined, witness said the son and daughter were good friends, and he knew of no reason wh-- the son should want to injure his sister.

Elizabeth Hillhouse, mother of the accused and the deceased, said that her husband camo home about midnight. He was not drunk. Ho told her and her daughter that he was going to put the son out, but she advised him not to. He insisted, and so she packed her son’s belongings. Her husband told her to put the gun with the son’s belongings. When the son returned, her husband went fn the front door, and witness fallowed. The son became agitated when his father pushed witness back, and the son threatened to kill him. Her husband then chased accused down the pathway. and witness took the gun and nut it under the house. Later her daughter went for the police, and the son asked for the gun. She kept putting him off until she heard a car arrive. when she gave him the gun. She went nut to the nolice, and she heard a shot and said to the constable, “you’re too late, someone has been shot.”