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The Trials of Eric Mareo

9 A 'Topper' in Mt Eden Gaol

9 A 'Topper' in Mt Eden Gaol

1 Truth, 9 June 1937.

2 Truth, 31 January 1940.

3 The Superintendent of Mt Eden Goal to the Controller-General of Prisons, 31 October 1936, EMP.

4 Pechotsch to Dallard, 30 November 1936, EMP.

5 Pechotsch to Dallard, 30 December 1936, EMP.

6 Harcourt, A Parson in Prison, p.299.

7 Singer, 24 Notable Trials, pp.122, 123.

8 Doidge to Mason, 14 February 1943, EMP.

9 New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 261, 4 December 1942, pp.944- 6.

10 Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 261, p.945.

11 Second Trial Notes of Evidence, EMP, p.214.

12 Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 261, p.945.

13 Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 261, pp.944-5.

14 Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 261, p.946.

15 Sexton to Harker, 13 August 1943, MP, 3/8.

16 New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 263, 25 August 1943, p.1019.

17 Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 263, pp.1019-20.

18 Dallard to Mason, 8 July 1942, EMP.

19 As quoted by Dallard to the Clerk of the Statutes Revision Committee, 21 September 1942.

20 Statement by Philip Patrick Lynch, 16 October 1944, EMP.

21 PF, Part II.

page 176

22 Ibid.

23 Statement by Philip Patrick Lynch, 16 October 1944, EMP. Dr Lynch would later republish a barely edited version of his report in No Remedy for Death: The Memoirs of a Pathologist (London: John Long, 1970), pp.115-26. In a private letter to Mrs Eleanor Spragg (née Brownlee) Mason claimed that 'Dr. Lynch's book gives a story quite contrary to fact and to uncontradicted trial evidence,' 1 October 1971, MP, 3/8.

24 PF, Part III.

25 Dallard to Meredith, 6 November 1942, EMP.

26 Mason to Dallard, 22 December 1942, EMP.

27 Mason to Dallard, 18 January 1943, EMP.

28 Mason to Dallard, 22 December 1942, EMP.

29 New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 263, p.1018.

30 Mason to the Solicitor-General, 7 June 1945, MP, 3/12.

31 Dallard to 'Phil', 24 February 1943, EMP.

32 Mason to Dallard, 24 February 1943, EMP.

33 Dallard to Mason, 5 March 1943, EMP.The following year Dallard had fallen out with his minister again on a matter unrelated to the Mareo case. Following a long exchange of letters in the Hawera Star, Mason wrote in a minute: 'By turning the matter into a personal combat you desert an unassailable position for an impossible one. Please send no further communications to the press in reference to prison matters without reference to me.' Quoted in J.L. Robson, Sacred Cows and Rogue Elephants, p.46.

34 Minutes of the Prisons Board, 28 November 1944, EMP.

35 Harcourt, A Parson in Prison, p.302.

36 Minutes of the Prisons Board, 28 November 1944, EMP.

37 Petition for Release of Eric Mareo, 11 April 1945, EMP.

38 Eve to Mareo, 21 April 1945, EMP.

39 Superintendent of Mt Eden Goal to Dallard, 7 May 1945, EMP.

40 Dallard to Schramm, 23 July 1945, EMP.

41 H.E. Evans to Mason, 25 June 1945, MP, 3/12.

42 'I Appeal' by 'Criticus': A Review, EMP.

43 The King v. Mareo (No. 3), 10-13, 15, 16 April; 19 June 1946. Court of Appeal, Wellington. NZLR 669.

44 The King v. Mareo (No. 3), pp.671, 673, 674.

45 The King v. Mareo (No. 3), pp.671-2.

46 AS, 17 June 1936.

47 EP, 10 April 1946.

48 The King v. Mareo (No. 3), p.673.