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WAIKINO MURDER

CHARGE AGAINST CARTMAN FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE CROWN. DISCOVERIES BY PATHOLOGIST. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 24. The case against Douglas Herbert Cartman, aged 22. who is charged with the murder of Elizabeth Agnes Hamilton, was continued this afternoon. Roy Albert Fitzgerald, bushman. Katikati, identified the car used by Cartman as one witness had traded-in in December. He identified certain tools used in the car, including a tyre lever found beside Mrs Hamilton':: body, as having been in the car when it was traded-in. Gordon Duffy identified a cleat found on the roadway where marks indicated an accident, as the cleat ' which he had put on the front bumper of a car traded-in by Fitzgerald and later sold to the accused. K. M. Griffin, Government analyst, gave evidence that • pieces of glass found on the road near the cleat corresponded in characteristics, with a fragment found at the back of a broken headlamp on Cartman's car. Dr. Walter Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland Hospital, said the tyre lever found beside Mrs Hamilton was stained with human blood for a distance of eight inches. Dr. Gilmour said he found hair resembling that of Mrs Hamilton tyre lever. The hair recovered from parts of accused's car resembled either that of MrsHamilton or of Lloyd Moran. On Other exhibits from the-car he found as well as human hair, a greasy substance. containing human blood and animal fat, which might be human. A number of human bloodstains were found on the inner fittings of the car. On! a stick found near the body of Moran there were bloodstains and hair resembling that of Moran. In his opinion Moran’s death was due to a fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain. On the body of Mrs Hamilton there were numerous wounds and injuries. Some of the injuries would be caused by a crushing force, such as being run over by a car. Head injuries were such as could have been produced by the tyre lever. He did not think the car could have produced them ‘or that the injuries caused by the car would have produced unconsciousness. Witness said that if Mrs Hamilton had been given immediate care aftei’ being struck by the car there was a remote chance of her recovery. The head injuries would be fatal within minutes, and the cause of death was injury to the brain. He gave medical reasons for his belief that the head wounds were inflicted during life. There was a clear indication that the body had been violated. Answering Mr Henry, Dr. Gilmour said- that not any of the convictions he had expressed was subject to reasonable doubt. The injuries from the car would be very unlikely to cause loss of consciousness. They might have caused fainting from pain; It was a reasonable' possibility that all the injuries suffered in the collision with the car could cause death within a short time.

The hearing was adjourned till tomorrow.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1940, Page 5

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WAIKINO MURDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1940, Page 5

WAIKINO MURDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1940, Page 5

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