MURDER HEARING OPENS

Chronicle (Levin), 10 April 1946, Page 5

MURDER HEARING OPENS

— -Press Associatiori

I Manunui Man's Deaih r j -EVIDENCE OF DAUGHTER

By Telegraph-

TAtrMARUNUI, April 10. In the Mag'istrate's Court this morning beiore Messrs W. Meaas and W. Tj.iom.as, J.'sP., Newton Tnomas Lowe, aged 30/ married, was oharged witn the' murder of I Ira Stanley Cullen, at Manunui, oil j Mareh 16. Mr. N. R. Bain, of W.anT | ganui, was Crown Prosecutor, and jivir. Noei Smitn, .of Hamilton, in- ' structed by Mr. J. M. McKenzie, of ! Taumarunui, .appearea for accased. : There are nine witnesses in the i prosecution's case. J Phyllis Noreen Cullen, aged 15, :gavt; fcvidence that sne jivea with the decea.sed Gullen .and her two brothers at the racecourse proper.ty |in Manunui. Her mother and lather had lived apart for about [the past three years. Witness was jirienaly with Mr. and Mrs. Lowe, I and on one occasion went to Auck- [ land with them. Witness's relations with Felix Frank Whittaker, iof Manunui, prior to tnis were initimate between February, 1945, and j ueofcrnDer, H»45. When witness became friendly with accused she told nim sne nad had sexual intercourse witn Whittaker. She had nad sexual intercourse also with the accused Lowe between February, i(H6, and March 10, 1946. ' Accused was a boiler attendant at a ve.neer worx^s, and witness used to visit him at night, leaving through a bedroom window and returning about kt.3U in tne morning. Her father was not then aware of this.