NRS 880 Supreme Court Papers and Depositions, Supreme Court Sydney and on Circuit [9/7189] R V Samuel Freeman and Others [AF00301604] - Flipbook - Page 76
replied "In an aeroplane".
at the races that day?"
in my life".
He said "Yes".
"I think,
I said "Did you meet Snowy Tathan
He replied "I never scat Snowy Tatham
I said "Do you know a man named. Norman Twiss?"
I said "Do you know his photo?"
I
He said
said "Has Twiss got any peculiarity?"
said "He has got a thumb off at the first joint".
He
I then
showed him a photo, he looked at it and said "It is not a
good photo".
I said "Have you seen Twiss lately?" He said
"1 have not seen him for 501119 time".
I said "Would it be
right to say that you, 2wi85, Tatham and this man (at same
time showing him the accused's Ayan's photo) ware drinking
together in a City Hotel two days before the Eveleigh robbery?,
He replied "It would not be right, I never had arink with
TWibti in 14 life, and I don't know Tatham or Ryan".
I then
took him to the Central Police Station, where I charged him
with attemtipnz to shoot at Constable Hooper.
reply.
He made no
On the 18th June at about 3 p.m. at the Central Police
Station, accused. Freeman said "I didn't mean to shoot you
chaps at Strathrield the other night, you ran me to a standstill, I knew I was gone, and that is try reason for throwing
the rvolver over the fence".
revolver at Hooper".
I could not fire it".
I said "You pointed the
He said "Yes, but it was locked and.
I said "Where did you I4 that pistol?"
He replied "In a shop in George Street Haymarket for
I said "How much m:Jney aid you have on you".
don't know".
He replied "I
I said "You tendered a 'five pound note in pay-
ment for the railway ticket, and a boy found another five
pound note near where you were arrested".
He replied 01 don't
know how much money I had". At about 11 a.m. on the 19th
June I saw him in the exercise yard at the Ce::tral Police
Station, standing in a row lUth nine other men of similar
height, age, and build.
I said to Yreeman "You are here for
identification for assaulting one Frederick Charles killer at
Redfern on the 10th instant aria robbing him of 42000".
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