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in its totality there would never be an identification parade unless you could parade one murderer with eight other murderers.
That is the end of that part of the case except for one
thing. I want to go back.
Only two children were seen thrown in. The rest depends on circumstantial evidence.
There is one piece of direct evidence which from the point of view of circumstantial evidence is of considerable importance. That is the two bruises on Mary Pine's neck. You remember the state she was in when her poor mother got home and found her being put to bed. She was undressed, examined, there was a mass of bruises and cuts, but there were two strange bruises on the right hand side at the base of the neck. The skin was not broken, they were bruises and they were circular in shape. Now, gentlemen, I mention this for two reasons.
Firstly, because it is an important piece of evidence that you will have to fit in to the whole of this great jig-saw of pieces. Also I want to remind you expressly that you must pay no attention whatsoever to the statement very properly made in the circumstances by the Counsel for the Crown, in his opening that those are indicative of the grasp of the accused as Mary Pine tried to run away. This is one of the statements made by Mr. Fraser in all good faith and confidence that Mary Pine was going to give evidence. and therefore all that must go. We have the fact of two circular bruises but there is nothing, no evidence to indicate that, as Mr. Fraser originally suggested to you, they were necessarily inflicted when the accused seized Mary Pine by the neck.
She has not given evidence
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Learned Counsel for the accused has said to you remember you are dealing with active young children are dealing with rationally ordinary children. There were five of them playing about there what an impossible thing it would be if a passer-by could come along and pick them up one after another and throw them in. Surely they would run away. We
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