BOAKES FOR TRIAL ON NOVEMBER 15
BURWOOD MURDER CASE “MORE THAN MERE SUSPICION” (Special to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. “I have come to the conclusion that the evidence raises more than mere suspicion and that accused must be committed for trial.” After considering the case over-night Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., decided this afternoon to send Charles William Boakes, aged 38, the taxi-driver who is charged with the murder of Ellen Gwendoline Isobel Scarff, aged 20, at Burwood on June 15, to the Supreme court. At this trial on November 15 Boakes will have to answer a second charge of unlawfully supplying a noxious drug to the girl. He pleaded not guilty to both charges. The hearing of evidence was not concluded until after 5 p.m. yesterday afternoon, and the magistrate then deferred decision on the question of committal. **l wish to thank counsel for the doj fence. Mr. C. S. Thomas and Mr. M. J. Burns, and the Crown Prosecutor. Mr. A. T. Donnelly, for the excellent manner in which they carried through a lengthy and rather intricate case,” i said the magistrate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 9
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184BOAKES FOR TRIAL ON NOVEMBER 15 Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 9
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