MURDER TRIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 15

MURDER TRIAL

ACCUSED'S MOVEMENTS

ON NIGHT OF TRAGEDY

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) - ' BLENHEIM, This Day. , The Flood murder case trial was resumed to-day. ' '

Tennyson Connolly, who drove cows daily past the deceased's whare, said he last saw Flood alive on 3rd Noveuir ber, 1931, at about 3.30 p.m. That night at about 9 o'clock he passed.the cottage. He saw nobody about, and there was no -light. Witness said he knew the accused- Tarrant and his horse, but he saw neither that night. .

Franklyn James Paislow deposed that he saw the accused at about 6.30 on the night of 3rd November. If ithe- accused said he saw or spoke to witness at 8 o'clock that night it was not true.

Isaac John Parfitt, a taxi-driver, said he knew the accused well. On the night of 3rd November he did not drive past the- Clarendon Hotel, and did not see the accused or. hear him call to

Cross-examined, he admitted that many people called "Good-night" frequently, and he might not remember an isolated instance. Witness said that another taxi-driver was often mistaken for himself.

. A number of youths gave evidence that they were near the Sunday. School on the night of 3rd November when Tarrant was supposed to have spoken to them, but all denied having seen the accused or his horse. *

At the lunch adjournment there were 34 more witnesses to be heard.