HOUSEBREAKING CHARGE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19994, 20 July 1939, Page 13

HOUSEBREAKING CHARGE

CLERK ON TRIAL ASSOCIATES’ EVIDENCE (Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, this day. Evidence for the Crown was heard a the Supreme Court yesterday aftertoon at the trial of Geoffrey Spicer Kean, aged 22, a clerk, charged with breaking and entering the house oi vliss K. Res ton., at Napier, with in„ent to commit a crime.

Hoy Nicholas Courlander, a hotel toward, said that Kean took him ;nd Matterson to the house in Napier and Kean and Matterson entered, i. while he remained outside adjusting his spectacles. He was still outside when a scuffle and screams occurred inside. It was untrue that Kean partc-d company from them at Paokakariki.

Cross-examined, he said lie. had ix cn sentenced to nine months im-riso-nmen. ior breaking and entering, but the Court of Appeal had altered , ,o a term, oi probation. He had endeavoured to show at his trial that e entered the house to have a meal, understanding from Kean that Miss Heston, would not mind.

John Kitching Matterson gave evi_yJC similar to Couriandcr's. He id that the woman came in while be was groping about in the dark and hey fell clown together. He was convicted o-f breaking and enter ing bu was acquitted of assault It was not true that Kean remained at Pae- : kariki. When he was invited into ,he house, he did not question the right of Kean to take him into it.

The Crown case was not concluded at he adjournment until to-day.