CHARGE OF MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 1 March 1901, Page 5

CHARGE OF MURDER.

(By Telegraph.—Press Asspciation.) 1

WAIMATE, Thursday.' «

In the case of Jeremiah McCarthy, charged that he did kill : and slay Thomas Sullivan, at Waihao,.,pri-12th January, 1895J the only fresh evidence was that given by accused's daughter,' Catherine, who deposed that -^er father struck the old man several. times with a stick like an axe handle;. He knocked him down, and as lia could not walk when he got up.again: accused lifted him, and threw liimf over a six wire fence. McCarthy thent\ got a barrow, and putting Sullivan on: it, wheeled him down the road, and! laid him alongside a gorse fenca*: Next evening he put him in a fe&p* and shifted him to the cross roads, where he was subsequently picked upf dead. '?, . ■', •

WAIMATE, Vthis day. T

On the Court resuming this morn* ing the Magistrate ruled that Ellet* McCarthy might be-treated as a hostile witness. Her statement made. ;ta Detective iTitzgerald and signed "by! her on the 10th January (put" in)} stated that when the, old nialri caind to the door in the * et^niln^i h^if father hit him with a ; sticik,'■ Spwcfiea him down, took him away ili %. jwhieet* barrow, and that 'she. tM&jrwJiMii heard the old man was f^ea'd.; On ai subsequent, date, in the CroSVn prosecutor's office, she':aci;ded vtnai hjer father hit the old man half a sbzert times with an axe handle-- THe- police evidence as to the -.finding 'bitnrt body indicated that it had : been; placed -where it was found afteif death.. :':\. ■ :;. i* ■ v; *X