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We know of two children being thrown over
Five children on the bridge happened to the othere ? were thrown in, what happened to the other three children? Mr. Lim has invited you to eay either of two things may have happened to there children. They are natural and normal children. Michael Pine was a very active little boy. They were throwing stones in there. They might have fallen over, or being the three eldest they might have climbed down the steps to the nullaḥ leaving the two little onee above and, Mr. Lim will correct me if I am not following his course of argument zot down to the foot they might have slipped on the partially
This is one of the hypotheses dry ground and have fallen in. that you are asked to accept. The other two may have fallen through the raile. You saw the raile gentlemen, and the pipes, and you raw the steps. You will bear in mind the age of there children. They were probably a great deal more active about getting up and down that place than I. It will be for you to form an opinion about that. At the same t me you have Eric Davies in sight of the bridge saying "I left five children there, I heard a cream" and you have re. Fairburn'e evi ence of not necessarily the same recond but a short time thereafter. There was no sign of the accused - but I think we can assume that
Assume that because it as the accused war on the bridge there.
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as much a part for the case of the Defence as for the Crown there can be no cuestion but that the accured did get into that
nullah.
Now let us ree if there is evidence as to any considerable lapse of time between Aric Davier' part of the story and Mrs. Fairburn's part of the story. We have to turn forthat to the consideration of that mass of rearate testimony which forme a whole, given by the soldiers, army contractors foreman and his assistant, the employees of the Peak Tramway Station, the canteen boy and Mr. Bowler ant re. Thompson and Mrs. Vincent.
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