THE GERALDINE MURDER
EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. [Per Press Association.] Timaru, May 11. At the inquest at Geraldine concerning the death of Adam Stevenson, a ploughman, for which his workmate, Harry Cripps, is in custody, the medical evidence showed that wounds in the head, caused by a blunt cutting instrument were the cause of death, such instrument being the short-handled gorse knife found in the gully. The body had been carried in a dray for two miles and placed in the gorse in the river-bed. A neighbor who ’ called on Cripps after dark on the evening of Stevenson’s disappearance, stated that Cripps behaved strangely. , An inference hinted at was that the body had been in the dray then. A quantity of blood, hidden by chaff strewn over it, was found just. outside the gully. The coroner returned an open verdict of murder against some person unknown.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 12 May 1914, Page 5
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146THE GERALDINE MURDER Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 12 May 1914, Page 5
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