ALLEGED MURDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1941, Page 6

ALLEGED MURDER

TRIAL OF LEONARD NEILING

MEDICAL AND POLICE EVIDENCE. INDICATIONS ON SCENE OF CRIME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The trial of Leonard Nciling, charg- ; cd with the murder of Marjory Living- ' ston Horton, was continued in the Supreme Court ioday before the Chief 1 Justice (Sir M. Myers). Messrs C. 11. Weston. K.C., and W. R. Birks are appearing for the Crown and Messrs W. E. Leicester and T. P. McCarthy for the defence. Medical evidence was given by Dr. L. W. Suckling and Dr. D. G. Simpson. Detective W. J. Hedley, giving evidence of his examination of the foreshore where Mrs Horton was found, said there was broken glass from a beer bottle about eight yards towards the sea. and about half a chain away there were freshly broken pieces of glass and the neck of a bottle with its cap still on. About twelve feet away tvas found a man's handkerchief which appeared to have bloodstains on it. Two corners were knotted. A full bottle of beer was found by a constable. Witness was questioned regarding the injuries to Neiling’s hand when he was arrested in Auckland. Witness said Neiling’s were a typical workman’s hands. There were two sores on a hand. He could not recall whether one had been bleeding. Mr McCarthy: “I put it to you that part of the beach is riddled with glass.” Witness: ‘'There were a number of pieces of glass there, but they had obviously been in the sea and were Worn by contact with rocks.” Mr McCarthy: "Many of them were jagged?” Witness: ‘‘No. they appeared to me to be all worn.” Corroborative evidence was given by Detective J. H. Ally. Charles Robert Quinn, drainage contractor, gave evidence as to arranging a job which Neiling was to start on January 10, but for which he did not turn up. Dr Lynch, pathologist at the Wellington Hospital, who conducted a post mortem, said he found that death was due to cerebral thrombosis, associated with throttling and multiple fractures of the jaw.