A MURDER CHARGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1924, Page 2

A MURDER CHARGE.

ACCUSED DECODE COURT. TAIHAPE, .7un. Tin' first charge til murili'r in the Distory of Taihape was road in the local Courthouse this afternoon, when Anthony Moghau. a well-known farmer, was formally accused with the muriler of Cordon John Genimoll before Mr .1. C. Aldridge, J.l». Sergeant Matthews appeared tor the police, and 'in his rcipiesL Moghau was remanded for oioht days, which are to be spent In AYaiigauui gaol. An inipiest was opened by Mr Aldridge. t iironer, lo establish - Oommell’s idemitication, after which th > inquiry- was adjoin ned sine die. A post mortem examination, which is proceedin'!, i- expected to disclose injuries not visible externally, ft is -said that Moghau struck Ocmmell ivith his fists only, hut the doctor says it was impossible for such injuries to hi. l so inflicted. Tbv .torijwjljj i turn revealed a both iaws ami an a** l Uroken ' l,eSMk ’ ~ ; i,. ltt( ,reil face and many a,, othe. .use batti (Mn „ K ns~~m - cuts and •' " J! ; , , attacked juries indicate foml with insanely set up, Moghau is a’s*physically small while tin' decea and spare. Uemmell was It is believed |„ Auchr - married ami had a wife land. No further 'Mailable.'personal character is “ v <&, ome f-agedv The scene of this grue*S^ e is a five-roomed house onMoawlmilgo Road. A scatter latino and orchard surround it. f was a bachelor dwelling for Meghan, though married, was legally separated from his wife. Tin dwelling has •> dilapidated appearance with its broken windows roughly hoarded up, and it stands about a mile from any otlmi

habitation. There is some doubt whether Gemmoll was attacked and done to death in liis bedroom, ns there wore considerable quantities of blood and some lmir in other parts of the house. Water about the floor and the victim s shiftless body are behaved to indicate that efforts were made m bring the dying man from apparent stupor. After failure the body seem- to have been dragged from place to place, on to the verandah. where it was found, wiili the dead man's boots alongside it. The motive for the crime is yet mi, ' known. The means wln-rehy sUt-h terrible injuries were inflicted are <diseurod in mystery, tor no wen pan hearing signs of having been put to such a purpose has yet been disco voted . lid) I’eilly. who was present at iUoghan’s, and gave information leading to the police being telephoned for, was arrested on a charge of drunkenness and is now an inmate of the lork,,l>'