TRUNK MURDER TRIAL
TIOAV ROBINSON WAS CONVICTED (Australian it X.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON. .Lily 13. Robinson beard the verdict and the sentence without flinching. The jury consisted of ten men and two women. The defence emphasised the absence of any motive, urging that it could not have been blackmail, aa .Robinson could easily have changed Ids job and disappeared as be bail done before.
Dir Justice Swift warned the jury not to bo influenced by the gruesome and sickening details in connection with the death.
The Daily Express points out that a burnt match led to the conviction ot Robinson. The police had nothing against him on .June ‘23rd. when be made a statement at Scotland \ aril which seemed satisfactory. At tins date the police bad reports regarding thirty black trunks from lot) different people. The detectives, however, bad just the germ of doubt. They searched Robinson’s office, where they discovered a blood-stained match in a wastepaper basket, whereupon Robinson was again summoned to Scotland A ard. Ho broke down, and volunteered a confession, thus enabling the detectives to trace the details ol the murder.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1927, Page 3
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185TRUNK MURDER TRIAL Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1927, Page 3
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