Mr. Healy: Why did you not tell the truth to the police immediately?—I was thinking more of y family than of myself.
Mr. Healy: You said you recovered from the rage by the time you got on the Heath road. Had you any idea you had killed her?—No.
Stone said that next morning he went to his work and returned home at dinner time. During the morning, while at his work, he heard that a girl had been strangled, but not who she was.
Stone said that after his mother told him it was Ruby Keen he went to the police hou: Heath and Reach.
Mr. Richard O'Sullivan, K.C., pro-securing: You u thought you had stunned her?—Yes.
And you left h there thinking she was stunned or unconscious' Yes To fend for herself when she came round?—Yes.
Stone said that he went to ihe police of his own accord; nobody had accused him Stone said that he did not ask man he met to go back with him to where the girl was lying. "I thought she had come round and gone home," he added He denied that he stripped the girl, and could not explain how there {o be sand in her hair and ears. examined by Mr. Healy he s the first time he told anyhc he had been with Ruby Keen in The
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