Evidence Objected To At Murder Trial
CHRISTCHURCH, May 6. When the hearing of the charge against William Erie Cooper oi j muraering Leslie James Boswell was resumed in the Supreme Court today, Mr. J. Hb MOipney, for the.i defence, raised an objection to the evidence to be given by Sergeant Alan Robertson Grant, After . a | short adjournment. to chambers -the i evidence of Sergeant Grant was j pr eceeded with. Sergeant Grant sai'd that on: February 10 he interviewedi Cooper, who said the miss- j ing child's naihe was Boswell, not] Cooper, the boy being his wife's j son. Cooper said he had left his wife at the tram shelter at Sumner, j and had taken the boy up some steps. Seeing the tram corbing, he | had told the boy to go back to his mother. That was the last he saw of the . boy. Cooper had ' sala it would be like his wife to say thatc he had "done the boy in." There j was no suggestion at that time that the boy -was dead.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1948, Page 5
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