Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1906-09-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE TWILLINGTON MYSTERY PARTIALLY ' CLEARED. INTENSE EXCITEMENT IN COURT. FALNTING OF SEVERAL LADIES.  "To those who have followed this case closely, much will have struck them as improbable; and tha more improbable thbaga has% in this peculiar  ease, been the first to be proved as facts. When the trial yesterday afternoon had taken a very black aspect, the counsel for the prosecution elicited from Mr Wycliffe, who was then being examined, the fact that he had the negatives and prints of the house that Dalville was said to have ta.ken. These the judge asked to have handed to him. We understand the judge himself is very fond of photography. For _some' "minutes he examined one of the solgraph negatives very minutely. After perhaps five minutes' eximina.tion, he sent -an officer for a magnifying glass. On the officer's return, he spent some time., evidently examining one part very carefully. All saw, all felt—in fact a presentiment seemed to have fixed itself upon many—that fresh light voas about to be thrown upon this mysterious affair. In about ten minutes he requested James Pretty,  the keeper, to be 'recalled. "Mr Wycliffe stood down, and Pretty took his  plat*. "By the judge: " 'You, of course, know Hazelton Park wall?' " 'I do, your honour.'  _ " 'How far do you think it is from the place v. here you were seated when you had your photograph taken, to where there is, or was at that time, a larga tree blown down—some, perhaps, forty yards distant from the end of fhe house?'  " 'Does your lordship mean from where we were seated to that tree, or to the end of the house?' " 'From where you were seated to that tree.' , "I should think three or four hundred yards.' " ' 'Cat part of the park would be in an almost straight line with where you vere seated, would it not?' _ _  'lt would your lordship.' The swamp of which we have heard speak was , hove far from where you were seated?' " One part of the swamp, your lordship, would be within thirty yards, or lees, of us.' "'So that if anybody took anything from that part of the swamp to the tree I have mentioned, they would have to go a distance of three or four hundred yards over open ground before they came to that tree?-' "They need not cross that part at all—that is, the open part; they could have gone by the firs if they liked; in that case, they would have been hidden from view all the way.'  " ' How long would it take you to drive from here to Hazelton Park, with a good horse?'  " ' About half-an-hour.' "The judge then addressed the counsel for and against. " 'On this negative,' he said, 'there are what seems to me to be the figures of two men, seated or kneeling at the foot of a tree. It is my wish that an officer and the keeper at once drive to Hazelton Park, examine this tree root, and see if the head of the murdered man is buried there. A.s yet, we have no direct evidence that trio body found is that of Mr Hollerstone; only inferential evidence.' The counsel offered no cbieotion to this course. "The inspector, the keeper, and two officers were ,at once despatched with orders to take spades and 'to dig about the tree. They took the photograph, , with the tree 'marked, along with them. -Thomas Williams, recalled by the Judge, said: i' "'Mr Hollerstone was good-looking, hut spoilt when his mouth was open. Having broken three of his front teeth, he had false ones; but as they VI OP $O Ma Oft4lls hiddeh, he rarelL had them '  -----------77-1----..,,,„, -I I, .„ ~ .-- -- )711 : i.... g-),'; .1e•-• -.l\ I _ ...."........„ ';1- .i • . f'2'.--". ''.' 7,46 ::-... ..iii,, 1 I ^ 4 --1 411' t. Mt .A: ~ 1 i • f*,.A. ~..... , ) ' ."P .t- ' 4,, - ; 4.liik W-441--:, ''..',' . ' • ' ati_f• 1_,...-4, • , , .4- : ;0.- . . . ~ r.. )44,1: ' , i r., , Th....i. . k.... ..-.-- ~,,L,l„..*,__) ~, ‘ , . it::: . _.,. iiii, .1,,,,5-,4,..4.,,;‘,„,k). A --•: .4:;'• -.„ :_._ -:- '' ,-/ ‘. 4 irr,-- ~......6,,, . 11 11! • _ -__--J.-----:--- -- / -..--,..,---i. ..„,,,,.L........._ „,v. , ~.:,......,„., ,-.-..- -I.( .., -10,5 E, .4,-- • ............. . ~.. , .\ ..,„ . . I '' A —; . : ' , , --WI r .• oil- -• '. *10" a ,11111.,T  i