SWANSON TRAGEDY
MURDER OF SPENSLEY. SON CHARGED BEFORE COURT. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, This Day. Wearing a - striped blazei - and light trousers and looking younger than his nineteen years, Francis Borgia Spensley, farm labourer, sat in the S.M. police court today while evidence was given in the charge against him of having murdered his father, Robert Fitzroy Spensley (60) on or about February 7.
The body was found under a covering of. hay near Spensley's threeroomed shack on a farm at Swanson on Sunday, March 13. It was partly decomposed and there was a bullet wound in the head. Mr V. R. Meredith, Crown Prosecutor, conducted the case for the police, and Mr G. Bloomfield appeared for
Spensley. The charge is being heard before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. It is understood that more than 20 witnesses are to be called.
A police witness produced photographs and a Lands and Survey draughtsman a plan of the house and farm. The case is proceeding.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1938, Page 8
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