WANGANUI MURDER CASE
MANLEY COMMITTED
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
WANGANUI, Juno 7. The case was continued in tlie Police Court .to-day. The Court was n”iiin crowded. Gun,stable Christmas _sa ; id Shut about J.'lo on the day of the alleged crime, witness went to,No (i iiidgway Street, actompanicd by two ellier-eoii-staliles. .lie saw llie; dead body;.or a young woman lying in a pool o‘ . idood and later made a .sei,i,,rcli for accused., About '•<>.£) p.m. witness yiarned to ihe police .station, v ..an;.' iiapl.ey was. there, Senior-Sergeam 'doUenn .Then charged v,M an ley- with the (inui'dcr 61' Gl'adys Cromarty,. Accused replied : ‘.is she dead,’ and . the Senior-Sergeant said ‘Yes,’ and warned him. Accused said: ‘.I was- witli the girl this afternoon, and .1 don’t know what happened.’ Accused added that lie had Jolt a knife in llie room, it.was tlic one lie used at li i.s work. Witness corroborated the evidence of " Detective Walsh. . ' WANGANUI, June 7.
Oiving-.evidenee in the murder case, Senior-Sergeant Ale Lean said lie .visited the house where the crimewas coinmil ted. Ho gave evidence regarding Manley’s arrival at the. police 'station. The, accused asked for- a lawyer. The accused'Was searched. The' '.letter produced in Court-was ■ found upon 1 his person. The accused said that he had written it oii> May' : 8, in the ladies’ waiting room’-at the railway station. Wit":iess was- ■ with Detectivc W alsh when the knife'whs •found in he cattle slop. ' ’
Constable O’Brien, who was at the watch house when the accused gave Himself up. said that‘Manley remarked : “I am the man you’re looinu?j for.”
John R, Smyth, railway clerk, said that he left* his cycle in a railway station lorry 2 o’clock on the afternoon of May 9, and at 6 o’clock he discovered that' it had gone, and on going to the police station, he examined a cycle there, which’ was wit-
ness’s property. Mil nicy was committed for l 'trial at (he Supreme Court on August 11. The inquest was adjourned "Sine die.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1930, Page 6
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