MOUAT CASE CONTINUED.
ADDRESS BY CROWN PROSECUTOR, FALSEHOOD THE WEAPON OF MOUA’J?. (Per Press Associat ion.) CHKISTCHUUCH, lhi s day. Mr Donnelly said that the woman's body or parts must be somewhere, The Crown submitted that the bones show vd where .it had rested. Why did Mouat on prat cally every vital point run away and make a belite-J. suggestion of suicide, wnen 11 other resources failed? Experinence and common sens? taught that falsehood was the weapon and the badge of gu It was u«c<! to destroy the evidence of detection in this case. It was rainforco.l by lying to every person likely to discover what happened, It might be said that the Crown had not shown with mathematical certainty how the crime was committed. it was true that it was impossible to show completely how the body was destroyed, but ift must have been destroyed in some way, because that was the cim explanation that fitted the facts. It was not possible to give Moual’s rts» son, for the crime, but there Was <■ suggestion in. one of his statements of trouble over financial matters
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2440, 15 May 1925, Page 4
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185MOUAT CASE CONTINUED. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2440, 15 May 1925, Page 4
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