Her Statement

NZ Truth, Issue 1238, 22 August 1929, Page 7

Her Statement

stable Jackson and Mr. Cooney, Mrs. Langdon made a statement, which covered about five sheets of foolscap, m . which she declared that she had seen Bill Bayly on the train. * At Hamilton the police had interviewed Mrs. Richardson, and she-had related how she had heard from her sisters, about Bill Bayly being on the train, on the afternoon of October 2, at Te Puke. Mrs.- Richardson told "Truth" that she had to insist to the detectives that her actual words be placed on record as she had said them. Mrs. Richardson is the youngest of the three nisters, and she was for several years m the Te Puke telephone exchange. Her reputation m the district to which she belongs stands very high. She is a well-educated and intelligent woman. Mrs. Thomasen told "Truth's" representative that before she left Papamoa her husband advised tier to tell Mrs. Frank Bayly about her having seen Bill Bayly on the train, and when she went up *tp the Bayly house to say good-bye she had every intention of doing so. It happened, however, that when she reached the house Mrs. Bayly was m tears, the reason being, so alleged Mrs. Thomasen, that Mr. Frank Bayly had received a letter from his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bill Bayly, This letter mentioned that .the young couple had decided on the name of their baby, but there was no men-