CHARGE OF MURDER.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18804, 28 November 1932, Page 8

CHARGE OF MURDER.

DEATH OF OLD MAN

EDWARD TARRANT IN DOCK,

“I DIDN'T DO IT.” (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Monday. The trial of Edward Tarrant, who is charged with the murder, at Pic ion, on November 3, 1931, of James Flood an old man entered on its sixth day with the examination of Detective Jarrold, who said he asked accused where he got the notes. Accused replied that he had been saving them for years. He' had received the notes when he cashed the cheques received from firms for wood supplied. The money was hidden in a chocolate box under the kitchen floor ■of his house. That accounted for the stains and Hie dampness. After further examination by inspector Ward, accused sairl he found the money in a wallet under a hedge between (lie croquet lawn and Miss Williams’ house. Tliis was shortly after Christmas. The wallet contained about £3lO. He thought, after he spent some of it, that it might be Flood’s money, and got frightened, and so made false statements 1o the police. When accused was I old that he would be charged with the murder lie said, “I didn't do it.” Caso for Crown Closed. Cross-examined, witness said no bloodstains had been found on the exhibits taken from accused’s house. Witness put in a statement by Leonard Tarrant to the effect that on the night of November 3 he attended a boys’ club meeting at the Sunday school, and was in the room till 9 p.m. or 9.30 p.m., when Bunt told him that his father wanted him, and he assisted his father to paddock a horse in a paddock near the school, and then they walked home together. Sub-inspector Ward’s evidence was corroborative of that of the previous witness in regard to the examination of accused just prior to his arrest. When asked if he had any more money accused said, “I have no more.” Witness searched the overcoat of accused and found 20 pound notes in the lining, rolled up in a small bundle. Accused said, “That’s the last of them.” This concluded the case for the Crown.