Taxi-Driver’s Trial, on Charge of Burwood Murder, Again Deferred
big crowd assembles at court Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. A CROWD of more than 200 people, at least a third of them women, assembled outside the Police Court this morning to see the arrival of Charles William Boakes, the taxi-driver who is charged with the murder of Ellen Gwendoline Isobel Scarff.
LITTLE was seen of him as the car drove up to the rear entrance of the court, the police shielding him from the gaze of the spectators. Boakes was dressed in a grey suit without a collar, and appeared calm as the charges of the murder of Ellen Scarff, whose body was found
in the scrub at Burwood on June 15, and with unlawfully supplying a noxious drug to the same girl, were read out. Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., remanded the accused to Friday, August 12, the prosecution stating that a further remand would then he applied for.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 114, 4 August 1927, Page 1
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