THE AMBERLEY MURDER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2149, 7 May 1897, Page 2

THE AMBERLEY MURDER.

It is understood that the police hare been placed in possession of evidence that the accused Sheehan waa seen leaving the plantation of pines in which the murder was committed, when the accused was seen with his coat off and going ia the direction of the Kawai riverbed in search of water to wash bimseli. The new witness was at the spot close on the time of the murder, and riding past, but going up country was not available for the inquest and the magisterial inquiry, but his testimony will be forthcoming at the trial at the Supreme Court. The police are still engaged in collecting facts in connection with the case, and hear that a complaint has been made of a man having roughly handled some children at West Eyretoo. Tbi* is bi'ing investigated, as the accused was in that and the Oxford districts.

Mrs Egnn, whose daughter is the mothnr of the younger Sheen, emphatically denies that there is any lunacy on her bide ot the family, hat states that Sheen, eeuier, was once in the Asylom is Wellington. Mrs heen, ehe says, Kft her htieband not on nccoont of eccentricity on her part, but for other reasons.

t>'heen, or Sheehan, the Araberley murderer, is well known in Reefton by the latter name. Hβ arrived there more than a year since, and worked for different people in the district. Hβ was not popular.