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I think you will agree that it is not very strange that no one has come forward to say "I was there and I saw him throw Michael Pine into the nullah". We have got to look further than that. If you will bear with me for a minute or two I would ask you to go with me to bridge No.1 sometime about 3.15 that afternoon and call back to your memory just what we do know.
We know that six children had left their houses a few minutes after 3 o'clock, had got bored with playing in the playground, had made their way on to No.1 bridge and were there engaged in the very natural pastime of watching the flood of
You will remember water running down and of throwing stones in. Aric Davies who is a witness whom we had not heard previously in this case, whose demeanour you could watch and whose credibility you are the best judges of, Eric Davies told us that they were all playing together there and he could not remember whether they were all on one side, or some on one side and some on the
He said other side, when someone suggested throwing stones in. they were all in a bunch when he left to go home to get a drink and as he went up the hill he heard screams. At the time that he heard the screams he was still near enough to the bridge to be able to see it and there I think is the end of the real relevante and value of Eric Davies' evidence, he was near enough to be within sight
of the bridge when he heard a scream.
Now we come to rs. Fairburn.
Sometime about the same
minute Mrs. Fairburn must have appeared on or about the end of
the bridge nearest to the children's playground.
has
She looked up
and she told you and she remained quite unshaken in cross- examination she has told you that she saw a Chinese man pick
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up a little boy on his left side and throw him in, then turn and He pick up a little girl on his right side and throw her over.
As he climbed he then climbed the rail himself and jumped over. naturally turned rather side face towards Mrs. Fairburn, and she has told you that she had sufficient opportunity and sufficient