The Petone Murder.

Hastings Standard, Issue 271, 15 March 1897, Page 2

The Petone Murder.

BOSIIER ON TRIAL. (Pit Pivm Association.) Wellington, This day. The Supreme Court trial of Bosher for tlie Petone Murders began this morning. Fourteen jurymen were challenged both bv the Crown and the prisoner. Mr Bell, Crown Prosecutor, opened the case, and in an address of considerable length, carefully reviewed all the circumstances connected with the crime, and pointed out that the evidence against Bosher was a conglomeration of small circumstances, none of which would carry weight by themselves, but taken together must be most seriously considered. The additional evidence was the discovery of prisoner's knife and clear proof that he had secreted it. Notwithstanding the series of falsehoods told by prisoner about it he had hidden the instrument in Dr. Teare's stables. lie was advised to hide the knife by Mr Santsbnrv or the latter had used language that might have been so construed by Bosher, and most unwisely the prisoner took that advice. At the time of the murder Bosher was being pressed by mortgagees and was in desperate circumstances. The time of the murder would be iixed by evidence at first after 8 p.m., and Mr ik'll contended that from 7.10 to 8.00 accused could not bring forward a single person who had seen him.