THE CASHEL STREET MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1128, 16 May 1911, Page 4

THE CASHEL STREET MYSTERY.

A TRUE BILL RETURNED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Christchurch, May 15. At the Supreme Court, this morning his Honour, Mr. Justice Demiislon, in charging the Grand Jury, referred to tho Cashel Street mystery in connection with which Henry Alexander .lack and Walter Richard Sadler stand committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Ethel Uradlev. The jury would confine its attention, his Honour said, strictly to the evidence that was before it. The case was a peculiar one, but the jury would have to decide simply whether there was sufficient evidence to establish a prima facie ease against both or either to go before a jury. The jury would liud a Hue bill unless it was satisfied that tho evidence was such that a jury of .sensible men could not find a man guilty on. The ease was peculiar iu that two men were jointly charged with having jointly committed the murder. There wa» potent evidence offered by the Crown against one of the accused which could not bo admitted against the other. At a later stage in tho proceeding .Sadler had made a .statement giving the movements of himself and Jack on the night of the alleged murder, but that statement, while it could be used against him, could not, c.s a matter of lnw, bo admitted as evidence against Jack. His Honour then referred to the evidence in detail. There was nothing- in the evidence to connect Sadler directly with the woman excent the statement made by him, and tho evidence that the woman was taken to his shop, and that ho was seen with Jack. Tho fact that the statements made by tho two accused were contradictory was not in itself evidence. If Sadler's storv were, true it was quite conceivable that the two men should wish to conceal their connection with the matter as long as possible and in that case would probably tell lies. The jury returned a true bill in the case. __________»