THE ONEWHERO MURDERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 48, 27 February 1915, Page 7

THE ONEWHERO MURDERS.

accused committed for TRIAL. | Pbu Puess ASSOCIATION. i Auckland, February 20. Leslie William Reals, accused’s brother, and ’husband of the deceased, Edith Knnna Reals said that on the morning of February 8, he departed from the farm at Onewhero at about ; 7 a.m., leaving his wife and family with a heln named Sophia Hunter, and a cadet named Cyril Well.s He attended the Pukekohe sheep fair, and was returning through Tnakau on the 9th when he received news that | something had happened at his home. When he reached there he found his wife with her head bandaged, and was informed that the baby was missing. His wife died at Auckland hos. pita I ftext day. He and the accused had always been friendly. The medical evidence given showed that it was impossible to say definitely th it the infant had died a vioinit death. Decomposition preventing certainty on that point. When accused was arrested, said ,üb-ln.- pec tor Mcllveney, he was perf >ctly normal in his behaviour, cool, dm and collected. The, body of the infant had not been found at that line, and the accused pointed out to lie police where it was. He remarked that he would not have been taken

; live if the revolver had not “gone wrong.”

Reals was committed for trial at ho next sittings of the Supreme 'ourt.

At the inquest on the .two victims of the tragedy, the Coroner found that both victims had been murdered by .Norman Keals.