WAIKINO MURDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 3

WAIKINO MURDER

CHARGE AGAINST CARTMAN HEARING AT AUCKLAND. EVIDENCE FOR THE CROWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 23. The trial was continued this afternoon in the Supreme Court before his Honour. Mr Justice Fair, of Douglas Herbert Cartman. aged 22. mine trucker. Waihi, on a charge that he murdered Elizabeth Agnes Hamilton. A brief appearance in the witness box was made by Lance Corporal Frederick William Hamilton, husband of the deceased woman. He said he was in hospital with appendicitis on the night of April 2. The former licensee of the Waikino Hotel. John Joseph Moran, said he first became anxious about his son Lloyd and Mrs Hamilton about 11 o'clock at night. After midnight he and others began a search without result. but about daylight a dog indicated to him where his ,son was lying over a bank. Constable W. C. Harper. Waihi. told of the finding of the body of Lloyd Moran, fully clothed with the exception of his left shoe. He noted bloodstains, and at various spots he picked up a handkerchief, two women’s white canvas shoes, a pair of damaged spectacles and pieces of broken glass from the headlamp of a car. When witness examined accused’s car later he noticed the right headlamp glass and bulb were missing and found a stain on the cushion of the dickey seat. He saw minute quantities of fatty substance and of hair about the car. Hearing of the Crown's evidence will be resumed tomorrow.