MURDER TRIAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1941, Page 6

MURDER TRIAL

DEATH OF MRS HORTON CROWN CASE AGAINST NEILING. HEARING CONTINUED IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WELLINGTON, This Day. The trial of Leonard Neiling for the alleged murder of Mrs Marjory Livingston Horton was continued. The final medical witness for the Crown was Dr.' J. O. Mercer, who examined deceased, with Dr. Lynch, and described his findings. In the course of a very lengthy examination, he said he agreed with Dr. Lynch that if the injuries to the head were taken together, the possibility of a fall, as opposed to applied violence, could be excluded.

To the foreman of the jury, Dr. Mercer said he thought the injuries to the head would have been sufficient in themselves to have caused death. Constable Needham, of Auckland, described having located accused and. another man in the public bar of an Auckland hotel on the afternoon of January 23. He asked accused to accompany him outside the hotel, where he told accused he was making inquiries for a man named Leonard Neiling. of Wellington. Accused said he was Bob Manning, of Onehunga and that the barman in the hotel would say that wjts his name. The barman told witness he did not know accused, but had seen him once before in the hotel. Witness left his companion, Constable Goldfinch, to keep a watch on accused, while witness .went to make inquiries. Returning two minutes later, he found accused and a man with him going down Durham Street West. They looked back and saw that they were being followed. Witness ran, caught Neiling’s arm and told him he was the man being looked for, and that he was arresting him for breach of probation. At the Police Station he took possession of Neiling’s clothes.