TEE GERALDINE MURDER.
EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. By Telegraph —Press Association. Tiraaru, Lust Night. At the inquest at Geraldino concerning the death of Adtfm Stevenson, a 1 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 neighbour who called on Cripps- after dark on the evening of Stevenson's disappearancc, stated that Cripps behaved strangely.
An inference -hinted at was that the body had been in the. dray then. A quantity of blood, bidden by .chaff strewn over i%, was found just outside the gully. The coroner returned an open verdict of murder against some person unknown.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 291, 12 May 1914, Page 5
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148TEE GERALDINE MURDER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 291, 12 May 1914, Page 5
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