ALLEGED MURDER
AD.UI STEVENSON'S REATfI
(B.S £,Telc2rai)h.— l'rojs A?so<-iat!oni
Tlmaru. ,\lav 20At the GoraMino Court this rooming Hoiiry Cripps carao before the Magistrate, Mr. V. R. Pay, on a charge of ■tho murder of Adam .Stevenson oil April 25i So far the evidenco is oii the lines of ilwt giyon af the Coroner's inCtiJO's.t, with tho addition rif oVirijcnee as to the idpsitifeaiioji of the doth tup; by flio housekeeper, the purclinso of keroSeiisj hy the accused (She e]otl)iiijr oil tiio fiend man's lody was saturated wiih kerosene"), any. (he evidence of a. witness, v.'lvo -met Cripprs ftii the ro.ad CQ'Tii* '"f! from the- Orncri )?ivcy, whero th® body had been deposited ill the. gorse. Deleciive F alley put in n statement iwlo by Gupps on Apn! 28 It is very raniiylJisg, aiitl tho only rtfe.reiie'6 to April 25 is thai life and' Stevenson fciid a "nrowl.'' On April 30. Cri.pos iiwdfr ,i further statement, in winch l:o saiij Steveiispn hit Ivim with a ■c.tovvbss, ftm! "I int. iiim with a st'.ck on tlvo head. I washed his face, and was going to tak& Isiiri down to you fellows. I .got .fri'ihtene;), and carted him to the riveVbed."
Accused was committed fo,r trial at Ti.ma.ru on June. 9.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 4
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208ALLEGED MURDER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 4
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