MURDER CHARGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1939, Page 6

MURDER CHARGE

DEATH OF MRS. PATIENCE. EVIDENCE IN LOWER COURT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Nine of the forty-three police witnesses had given evidence when the hearing of a charge of murder against Arthur John Patience was continued in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court today. The public gallery was again well filled with spectators. F. T. J. Grigg, Government analyst at Christchurch, said he had examined the contents of the stomach of a woman found at Taratuhi Beach and he found no trace of poison. Elizabeth Amelia McKay, a married woman, residing at Taratuhi Camp, said that she first met Patience about twelve years ago. Up till the time that Mrs. Patience disappeared, Patience and his wife had visited them quite frequently. Witness and hexhusband went to Claverly in August, 1936. Patience arrived some time after and was joined by his wife later. Mrs. Patience had been in camp foxmore than a year when she disappeared. “I saw Mrs. Patience every day, sometimes twice a day,” added witness, wh(i said hex- (Mrs. McKay’s) hut was on the beach side of the camp. Mrs. McKay said she was very friendly with Mrs. Patience. “I think I was the only one she would discuss hexprivate affairs with,” she said.