CHARGE OF MURDER
ORIENTAL BAY TRAGEDY LOWER COURT HEARING. ACCUSED SENT TO TRIAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. On the conclusion yesterday afternoon of the hearing in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, of the evidence called to support the charge against Leonard Neiling, brushmaker and labourer, aged 29. of murdering Marjorie Livingston Horton, accused reserved his defence and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial at the next sessions. Unconscious and with serious injuries to her neck and head. Mrs Horton was found between the sea and the road near the Oriental Bay tram terminus on the morning of January 9. She died in hospital three days later without regaining consciousness. Most of the evidence yesterday was from police and technical witnesses; including pathologists. The hearing occupied two full days and over 30 witnesses were heard.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1941, Page 4
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