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GLENFERRIE MURDER.

ANGUS MURRAY ON TRIAL.

CROWN CASE CLOSED.

Evidence for the Defence.

Movements of Richard Buckley.

The trial of Angus Murray, aged about 40 years on a charge of having murdered Thomas Reginald Victor Berriman, was         continued before Mr. Justice Mann in the Criminal Court yesterday. Mr. Macindoe appeared for the Crown and Mr. Gorman   instructed by Messrs. Luke, Murphy, and Co. appeared for Murray. Further evi-   dence was called by the Crown to show that Murray was the taller of two men seen running from the Glenferrie station and escaping in a motor car after Berriman   had been shot near the Glenferrie station     on October 8. When the Crown case   closed, the defence called evidence to show       that Murray was not near the spot at the time of the tragedy. Evidence was also given to prove that Richard Buckley, for whose arrest a reward of £500 has been       offered with ill in bed at his son's house in Fitzroy on the day of the tragedy.

Witnesses said that Buckley left his son's       home on the morning of October 13 and had not since been heard of.  

Evidence of Identification.

Norman Alfred Rattray, merchant, of   Hawthorn, said that on the morning of the tragedy he heard a man call out "I'm shot." He saw a man with a square suit- case in his hand running from the spot.     The man carrying the suitcase was the man in the dock.

Mr Gorman - You were taken to the

gaol were you not?

Witness. - Yes    

And they told you that you were to identify Angus Murray? - Yes

And Murray was the only man pre- sented to you - Yes

John William Heeps, confectioner, of   Hawthorn, said that on the morning of   October 8 he was at the Commercial Bank,   Glenferrie, of which Mr Berriman was the manager. Later, when on the Glen- ferrie station he heard a noise. Turning around he noticed Mr. Berriman holding his ------ and calling out. Witness ap-   proached Mr. Berriman and then ran ------- towards the Swinburne Technical College. He saw a man running, and another man was following behind. The second man, who was shorter, wore a blue     suit similar to that produced. He ran with a peculiar lumbering gait. The taller   man wore a hat like the one produced.   A photograph produced was like the shorter   man. They ran to the motor-car pursued     by witness and a man named Barnes. The   taller man opened a door of a motor-car to     allow the short man to enter.

Mr Gorman - After the arrest, Senior- detective Clugston asked you to come up     and have a look at Angus Murray, did he

not?

Witness - "No I think he said "Come up and have a look at a man we have here."      

I suggest that when you got to the gaol cell he called out in a loud voice, "Angus   Murray?" - I do not think so.    

George Henry Fairey, a baker of Abbots-   ford, said that he was on the Glenferrie station when Mr. Berriman was shot      

Murray was undoubtedly the taller man of  

the two.

Mr. Gorman - Did you say at the Coro- ners Court that you would not swear to  

that.

Witness - I may have. He is like the

man.

Frederick William Miles Wood, secure-   tary at the Swinburne Technical College said that before the shot he saw Murray  

standing near the rockery. Murray wore a hat similar to that produced.

Mr. Gorman. When you were brought   to the gaol to identify Murray, did not     Clugston say "Put on that hat Angus?"  

Witness - Some officer did, I believe.    

Did not Murray refuse to put on the hat on the grounds that it was not his hat? - Yes.

Mr Justice Mann - Tell the jury exactly what took place.

Witness - I was shown some hats and told to pick one out that looked like the hat worn by the man. There was something

said about putting on the hat, but who said       what I do not know. The prisoner refused to put the hat on.

Do you recognise Murray as the   man you had seen? - Yes.

Productlon of Depositions

Thomas John Ryan said that with Mr.    

D. Grant P.M. and several officers of police   he went to Somerset House on October 18 to take the depositions of Mr. Berri- man. Angus Murray was present with his     solicitor Mr. Lawrence Murphy, who also questioned Berriman. Berriman said     to witness "I have met you before at   Heidelberg." Witness said "Yes. That was some time ago. It must be 17 years." It was quite true that witness and Mr. Berriman had met 17 years previously  

In his depositions Berriman said,    

"I think I know this man (indicating     to Murray. This is not the man who shot     me it was the other man. I am too weak   ......... the other man now."        

Mr. Gorman. Were any detectives in the room when you entered?  

Witness - Yes Detective Brennan and Senior detective Clugston.    

Did the prisoner say "I want you to be   --- dead Mr. Berriman? ''      

Mr Macindoe - I object to that.

Mr Gorman - Well did Mr. Berriman say "Yes.You might not be the man?''    

Witness - I did not hear it.

Mr Berriman was very weak, was he   not? - Yes.    

What did the doctor say to Mr. Murphy "You     can ask him a few more questions if you can be quick?" - Yes  

As a matter of fact, the doctor did pro-     test against the examination? - Yes

------ James Raymond Stone, a baker,       --- said during September and October of ------he served with bread the house          

443- Barkly street, St. Kilda. He saw     Murray at the house twice. On two occa-   sions Murray paid the bills.      

Mr Gorman - Was his hair then fairer   than it is now?      

Witness - I could not say. I used to rush in and rush out again.

Raid on House Described.

Detective Fowler said that on October 11       he and Senior detective Clugston and   othiio went to the house in St Kildain   which Leslie Taylor lived. They arrested     Murrayat the point of the revolver. In     another room they found Leslie Taylor and       Ida Pender. A nickel plated revolver with one ehamber empty was found.   Witness made a search of the bedboom, and found a brown suit and a grey suit. Murray said that another man lind occu niel the loom before ho linne to the place Mun iv added that he vus m Sydney on

the iliv of tho tiagcdv

Mi Gorman-Yon have examined the bn'lit extracted from Ali Ben mian'

I'm lu -T have not

Mi Gorman -It is conceded that the bullet will not fit that rcvolvei»-I do mt I now anvthinr about it

Ii nu the de«ciiptiiins you have received ol I he nu ni «hull the men went away, vioull vim niv that it vv is Tavlei s cu' Willi a few nlttiutions it mifeht hue

hun

U um nile the discpption did not e nrspond with IB)IOI S car as you know itv li was the same size

Jmlot WUK wanted bv Hu pnliu ni Mil b n i i about 12 months was he not'

All Alaeindoc - 1 lint is not evidence

Ali Golman-I piopose, Ynm Honoiii

to «.how that theie weic disti lgmshmg lum I«, nu lav lor and vii the pome had .loin ulti in ldentifv HIL lum m Mellion no Ii \V ilnoss - You lound no non Inline 0| ii suite isi uboul the house did von'

Witness-No

S.IUII deteitlve I highton mil Detective Linnhe II de. guvi evideinc

Outlinlnn the Defence

Mi (.01 mau cn ni thal he would mil an ".pul iiKphaltci «ho would sav Hint Ikon vvis no tin nllghl nt tin spot upon «lull Mi« Ashton uni that slu saw i Im lim mug a tin buk of the house m »huh lesln luvloi lived He would i ill nil lusses lo tell thcin the kind of mun

lluil lev wus in iipliiurunct, mid to till tin in where he was on the duv of the mindel nnd loi sölnu duv s atti i Alininv en a pul f i oin (.ellong Ouol on Vumst _'l mil hi lived Hui I fe of n lujitivi It wai ililli! lilt to git el n eet ev lelenee ol his when ni outs mi iiiiv pin tie ulm day hut theie

win, one niau who saw linn on Octubii S

Murray interviewed this man with a view to getting a passage away to England.  

Albert Edward Morris said that he was     an expert asphalter of 20 years' experience.   As a rule, when fire was lit upon asphalt

the trace of it could be seen for six or eight months after. He could find no trace of fire upon the spot on which Mrs. Ash- ton said that she had seen a fire burning.

Mr. Macindoe.—But a quick fire for a     short time might leave no trace? Morris.—It might not?  

John Richard Wilkinson, living at Gadd     street, Croxton, said that he was engaged by Taylor to drive a car on October 8.   He drove the car to Taylor's house at St. Kilda. The number of the car was 771. He reached the house at about half- past 9 o'clock, and left a few minutes after   arrival. He was accompanice by Mr.     Taylor. They went first to the court, where they had business, and then to Dr. Kenneth McLean's in Collins street. Later     they went to Bourke street, where they visited different hotels and other places. Witness then drove Mr. Taylor's brother   and a clerk to the Richmond races, where witness put his car into the park area. They left the racecourse some time after the last race. At no time during the day had he driven the car back to Mr. Taylor's

house.

Mr. Macindoe.—Leslie Taylor lent you       the car for the day?

Witness.—He did not lend it to me. He   ordered me to drive Mr. Bill Taylor and the clerk to the races.

You know Taylor, I suppose?—Just from     being engaged to drive him about.  

Do you always call him Mr.?—Yes.  

How did yon let "Leslie" slip out when you first got into the box?—I suppose that was from reading the name so much.

Photographic Puzzles.

Ernest John Body, a photographer, said that certain photographs produced were   taken by him. The original was probably  

a man who was then in court and who was asked to stand up for identification.

Reuben Abrahams said that he was a bookmaker's clerk living at Milton street, St. Kilda. His house was about 200 yards   from the house in which Taylor lived.

Mr. Gorman.—Did you know Taylor?    

Witness.—Yes.  

How?—Sometimes he visited my place, and borrowed garden tools, and occasion- ally I went to bring them back. Occasion-   ally he brought them back. That photo- graph produced is mine.

Mr. Macindoe.—You are a friend of Taylor's?    

Abrahams.—No.  

But your wife bailed him out?—Yes.

Is she a friend of Taylor's?—I do not           know; she is a friend of Ida Pender's.

Why did you get that photograph taken?

—Taylor said that he wanted me to. He suggested that perhaps witnesses had seen me at his place and had mistaken me for

Buckley.  

You were not on the Glenferrie station on October 8?—Certainly not.

Hugh Dawson, a lishmongii, of South Melbourne, vnd that on Oitobei 7 and 8 he was on tin sido of the lagoon ut Port Melhnurni selling fish On Octobei 7 lu had a lonversattoit with a leilaiii ninn, in consequence of which he su« n man named I muk« on tho following dav Pi miks was uieompaintd bv a man who gave the name

of Mi Biewbtcr

Do von seo an)one in louit hki Mr

Brew slu '

\Vitin8s-Yes lite niau m the doik îiî lil e linn though Mi Bievvstcr was fatror

Mr Mnelndoi-Whj did jon come here

to dav '

Witness-- I lotild haidlj tell jon how T came to be hen

Hid Leslie lajloi who interviewed von turn out to bi 1 ranks*-No

I hen how did lajlor know that \ou hid sein Biewstn'-I have liol the least idea Tai loi nine lo mo und said, 'Did JOH propuse n Mr Ii miks to get u job foi a man' I mud, "I did not pi omise lum, but» I said Unit I would get lum n job if I

could '

Mrs Buckley In Box

\iinc 1 liznbuth Buiklcv saul th it she lived in Cet il street, Pitzioj, with lnr bus band, who was the son of Richard Bmk hj Hot futhu ni law taino to live with them on lune 13 of last j ear ni left on Octobn 13' Tie was about 04 vcirs of age He vv is a mau of stout budd He had been opeluted on in Apt ii mid duung October li_e was \cn weak Ile also had a bullet wound On Oitobir 8 he WIIB JOIJ ill in heil He had served mum sentences, and had been i (-leased on an indeterminate sent once On Pridnv following Octobei 8 he left tin house

Mr Mmmdoc-Who opentcd on Rich

aid Bucklev '

Witniss-Di Wiscvvould

He wus in, join house on Octobei S' I \\ ho else san linn'-Mv sistci ind mi j hush md Hi bl ought m n papel nu Octo

bil 13 mid Hind, Look at this J btv arc trjing to fruin me foi the niurdct of Mr Bu rmtuii' Ile added, J hij gtivc mi live j cms foi anothli thing that 1 mvn did and thev nie not going to do it again " Ile went nvvav and sinn thf*n 1 have ncilhei seen lum not heuid of linn

And v on know thri e is a revv ard of J.500 olTind foi hint*-\ts

\\ llliam Bml liv, hush nil of the last witnes«, ind a son of Richard Bucklev, said that he wns implovcd in one of the suburbs In Octobei last his futhet was living m tin house with lum On the afternoon m Oitobei 8 witness rame home and found his father in bid His fnthn was then ill Witness last saw his fnthei on Octobei 13

Richard Buckley's History

Mr Maiindm -You knew Hint vont father was tiled foi niurdct m this comt, and that the mrv ihsagiced, did jon not'

\\ ilness -Yes

Were von bete when join father wis charged with hnvin" broken into n tpunt ing liotlBc'-"i cs

Did j ou not hent bim picul gudtv'-I ' am not sure hut it was not thal «entente( to which be leferied Hi Mid nf his first I sentence that he lind bien sentenced and Hogged though he was mnoicnt Minn

ho went nvvav on Ortobei 13 be said lb it | 'if thev wanted bim thev would bivi to git him

Prisoner Gives Evidence

'Known as \ngii Munn, said tlu (ill I

Bonn when he viint into th bo\, and vi is j

its! ed bim name Muiriv saul that be escaped from tlu feeding Gaol on August 24 He staved m Geelong foi about three dav s at two diffotint hotels Dunne, the tune that he was in Geelong lie slijcd m thi same hotel as Majoi I niidn tin Govn nor of Piiiludr.e and Mr Al Pherson in si ectot gineral i f prisons \\ hen he saw these two oftmals then UP vient to atioth r hotel It was at tin "\ u tot in Hotel tint he saw Mi MiPhiison and Majoi Condii Ile came to Melbourne md took up his re

stdenie in the housi ni whit h hi vi is ar d rested During August nnd '.cptcmbci he

did not move mindi about tin ntv On ii Oitober 8 witness was a fan man and he

continued so until a few dav s ifter his in ii rest He had put rouge on his cheeks,

and applied sonic faic citnm

Mi iioitniiii -I rom the morning of Oc tober 8 what were vom movements'

Murra.} -IA eil, on the morning; of Odo bcr 8 I-met a man nnmeil I ranks and we went tpgcthei and saw Davison Traills mil odin ci! me as Mi Uievvstci I did not return to the Bail Iv Bticct housi until late m the evening

Hou vicie von dnssed'-Just as 1 mi now, with n dark hat

Put vomJint on'-Have I join Honours pel misson *

Mi Justice Mann-Ccrtninlj

Mr Golman -Weie von at tin Glen feme station on Oitober S'

Murun - Certnmlv not Ihe wit nei ps win sin I tint Uni siw nu running wctc misinl en I did not ne,ne with Ililli liv u with injone eist tint i shot should bi In ed on the f lenfeiiii ht i

tion I did not set tin hit hue produced until it was puidttied III (II éliminai in vesti"itioii di| iitmont I IIIIVL in IPI ml dm in lal lot » ern mid I hut li id norn of tin pi moods nt the i lbben

\\ lipii Mi Bei ninan s depositions win tal ni whit iiiiuiiedv I iniil Mi Hu mum I mi \ue,its Murriv-li» mini thev m mun, ti ti um f i i ii bui" i ni it < li n)i l ni I mint i ni (o bp ven i it i

ful' Mi linn nu in icphtd \uj well

ion iimv not bp (lu linn Detective Milne lim i ml in to IIK idol 11 th. In J nml u lion lu t C1 Nil Ik u nulli tnuilt a -inulu numil

and 1 ti nil to git it down D t etiu Milne Uni item il tu linitdc ntl nn

Former Bank Official Mentioned

Mt Mat union N lit i, did vin go to ( ee lout, shout Siptenibci IÍ1J2

Did jon imc( ii niau i tnied Riihiiilsim tlme'-No

\ man who lind foimnlj been n tollu ni this ter) balik'-No

Did auv niau tall lo von about lion simple it would lu to ni tink this bank minai,!! at Glenfern« No

Von kum lim kin, of i out ti'-^ is I «ml ni with lum foi veins

itul i f iniiLsi v jit looked lum up' -No I just stink to 11 inks, who wus mv one tin ml Hunks took mi to I ai lui s limit

Is lu lieu to din ' No hu is muling n that the dittittvis will not have lulu

tin i hid Iiivlm

linn lu ts no1 (iimniK" No Hi would . t foul ii he did

Vi Hues-, saul that he told tim detcilives that lie waa in isjdncj at the time of Ihe tragedj, hecnusi ho saw that the (jetcetives uno tning to frinu lum fit murder

the loreiniui of the jttiv u°hcd wbethel finilitii t would bt illoidt 1 thin of nunn, the stein of tin ti lgtilv ami ot lnspiitius the housi in Bail Iv stielt, f-l Kilda

Mi Justin Mum) saul that lu would tonsider tin itijuest

The hearing was adjoin neil until this

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