AUCKLAND MYSTERY.
FURTHER EVIDENCE,
Auckland, Last Night. The inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of.the girl Elsie Walker was resumed at 11 o’clock this morning. Phyllis Dorothy Bayty, wife of William JBayly, said that she was married in Auckland on August 29, after that living at Epsom, while her husband boarded elsewhere. She remembered on the Sunday before Elsie Walker’s disappearance. She met her husband at midday and they went out in the afternoon to tea at Mrs. Fowler’s, where 'witness was staying. Late her husband left to visit) friends. She next saw her husband in Queen Street at 2.45 on Monday afternoon. They paid a bill, she bought a hat and they had tea in the city. They looked at the shops and returned to Epsom at 9 p.m. this being October 1. Her husband left her then and returned for her at Epsom at 11 o’clock next morning.- They had lunch in the city, went to the pielures and had afternoon tea with a friend, meeting nobody else that afternoon, but they had tea together at Epsom, her husband leaving a I eight o’clock. 'She went out to Henderson on the Wednesdav.
The coroner (Mr. Hunt): Where did your husband go on the Monday morning? 'Witness : Out to Henderson. Why 'didn’t you go?—I had no wish to. Didn’t you want to see the place where yon were to live? —I knew my husband would see it was alright. The coroner: How curious. Miss Selkirk, recalled by Mr. Northcroft, said that the bat produced was the one sold from the shop where she is employed. Mr. NorthCroftls that the style of hat that would be sold last October? —“Yes; that was the style of hat just coming into fashion then.” This concluded the evidence, “Thai is all the evidence that is likely to throw any light, either directly or indirectly, on the mystery,” said Mr. Y. 1L Meredith, 'Crown Prosecutor, after the last witness had finished her evidence.
The inquiry Avill be continued on Tuesday next at 10 a.m. Evidence taken prior to the above appears on page 1 of this issue.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3897, 19 January 1929, Page 2
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354AUCKLAND MYSTERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3897, 19 January 1929, Page 2
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