PICTON MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1932, Page 6

PICTON MURDER

TRfAL OF .TARRANT CONTINUES

DENIAL OF ACCUSED’S EVIDENCE

(Per Pr'iss Association Copyright.)

BLENHEIM, November 24. The Flood murdlar case wss this mornir.g resumed. Tennyson Connolly, who drove cows daily past deceased’s whare, last saw him alive on November 3rd., about 3.30 p.m. That night about nine o’clock be paped the cottage and saw nobody, and no. light. Witness knew accused and! his horse but saw neither that night.

Franklyn James Raislow deposed to Feeing accused about 6.30 on the night of November 3rd. If accused said he saw, or spoke, to witness at eight o’clock that night it was not true, Isaac John Parfitt knew .accused well. On the night of November 3rd. be did not drive past the Ola.redon Hotel, and did not see accused' or hear him call to Cross-examined he admitted that many people called good night frequently , and he might not remember , an ■‘solated instance. There was another, a taxi driver, wh 0 was often mistaken for witness. . V number of youth* gave evidence ot being near the Sunday School on the night of November 3rd, when Tarrant was supposed to have spoken to them, but all denied having seen accused or his horse. At the luncheon adjournment, heie were thirty-four mole witnesses to be heard. .