POLE MURDERS HIS SON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 205, 27 August 1904, Page 13

POLE MURDERS HIS SON.

SCAVPALOr-- REVELATIONS OF : t POLISH WEDDINGS, j s Beforr Lord Adam in the old Court. llasgow. last month. Adam Black. otbeT- j . tise Adomis FjaTichis. was charged with | aving. on Ist May last, murdered Joseph \ _ Slack, his sen. l>y stabbing fcini with a title. He pleaded not guilty, and was de- j . ended by Mr Arthur Dewar. K.i'-. and Mr j . ames Mac__D_ld. Annie Brown. residing J * t Haaph rta.ee. Haxof-tou Tatece Coirierr _ tow., was tbe first witness. She is _mW- ( 0 speak English, and her evidence was ( aken through a female interpreter. She . aid she- was the wife of a To.-* miner, ( :nown as Krank Brown. She was in Black's j . louse ou tbe ilatc uoeni toned, when the I reused e_an in ami searched for some- j turrg nt the _r<-p!a-~ He opened rhe door , ,f the press and looked ill. His son put j liir away from the press, nnd hte wife ptit j iei- hands in bis pocket and look the door j ;-r from him. Ymuip Black took bold of . its father's arm. and pushed him out. , .fterwanis Then- was a knock at the door. , md it w_s answered by Joseph. He half- j >peuod the door, and witness -saw a band" ! 'i-oru ihe outside The hand jus! went •Mk-e ijisf-I witness illustrated it by saw- j n- rbe air with her arml The hand seem- j Hi to strike Jos_ph. bnl she did not see a , snifr. »r could she see in whom Iho j iand belonged Joseph staggered back from lhe door and fell soring—"OU. Jesus, nether. J MT INSIDE. COMING OFT " I_e mother and witness ran out of the j Bouse, ai-d she saw accused running. On , the evening of tbe same day the accused I raine to her house. One of his eyes was j blackened, and he said: -Joseph has done tt.-- He afterwards took out his watch. | and fi_id be would pawn ii on Monday and I buy a rwsorvr. and shoot bis wife and son- | The accused came from Poiand. and conld j KP-.-J-. English. He was a coal miner, j The _cco--d had drink, and ail the wltnesse- e_cvoi herself wcic alike, having r-.cn st a wedding It was a Totish wedding, and the rejoicing lasted from Thursday fill MoB-st The witnesses got drunk, and tbey remained drunk till Sunday. TnSDDIKfi f.T'F-ST_ ALL DRUNK. Tsabe-la Straddon. a jrirl of 12 years, said lier _iot_er. who had been a widow, mar- i ried a T'o!»sh miner on _3t_ April last, and j the f*rc-s«<-d. his wife, and sou Joseph were j ai The wedding. The festiyities were kept I rp nntil the following Tuesday. She was In tbe boose on the day menuooed in the in- | diet-mem. when the accused cam« in. He ; n-.nted his pipe, and bis wife and son Joseph took him by the shoulder and flunr him em-ride the bouse. The accused came j b.TCk. and ihe d<->or was answered hy a -IP- I who lodged in the hon<-e. She heard the I »cr_soo ask the lotte'T to fend .loseph ont lei bins to ask his forgiveness. Joseph went | ic. the door. Witness did not s»r Adam B>ack nt th" d.-.r. nm did she see a hand or a knife. When .Tosepii reinrned from the door he hay down on lhe bed. say inc. "Oh. mother. I'm killed " His mother ran otrf of the house, s-hontinc that her son was t-iilee!. Wtl rress had heard lhe aeensed nay ir the previous Sunday that he would kill someone, : were shoot fii people ai the wedding: tliey were moyiiy drunk aM the time. There was a good derl of noise. She was no; alarmed when the accused said he -onld kill someone. She considered ii the stupid talk of .1 drunk man. HT_ SON BRtrKE HIS HEART. Mary Clainsfeey said she was in Black's lious.. She heard the accused saying with ai: oath that his son would Dot come out of that house that nigh:. il was she whn went for the do-lov. sin- had to go over .i mile for tbe doctor, ._nri !i.. was aJvint half au hour iv coming. She did uoi know whether anythinf was done for Joseph in tfct interim. She did not regard ihe language used ly Black at ihe wedding as serious. There was nothing unnsoal in ihe fe«t-iri«'s for n Polish wedding Charles Smith, who was also in Black's house, was the next witness. Hr volur-l-ored lo give bis evidence iti English, but | bis command nf that language proved inj a,tetj_ntc. an d the srr«ees nf the imerproter bad to he serureil. Smith, however. j spotee tiis pijreon English fluently, his voeaj '_>a._tr- consisting almosl entirely of nouns 1 _nd verbs. When he started to speak in IMs native tonpnc his volume of speech was j se> frrcat that tbe isierprerer had rreqiicntiy ito cut it short. He said *hai the a censed 1 fume "srreetiiifr" into his honse. lTi* face (and lips were cut. He said his son bed i done It. adding thai 'his sen had broken I his heart, and was driving him mad.'' He ! warned to go for the police, bnt witness advised him to ?n tc beri. saying. "\'or are drunk." Accused said he was ifraid that tbey would kill him. Witness afterwards left the honse. and sorac time later he beard Mrs Blark shouting and saw accused running away. Witness returned to The honse. whrre he saw Joseph, who ssid I that his father had stabbed him. Joseph's entr__s were protruding. VERDICT AND SENTENCE. Medical evidence was given to tb* effect that the deceased had been stabbed in Ihe abdomen, the wound leading to peritonitis f-ora ihe soiling: of tie intes'ines from foreign mrticr. Death result fri iin the Rnysi lu_r_.a.-y on ;be rtiird Jay ! after the deceasir_ was operated on. If tbs foreign matter bad cot rot in. death might i possibly not have resulted. Professor titaisI tor. who made ibe i-ost-njorte.ra e-_._jnti.a----tiou. ."titted thai iv bis experience injiir'PS jof ibe extent similar to that inflicted on the deceased had in tbe ma.i,,rity of c-ise. rt__Ued in death. He admiiied. however, tbat if the wound had b.-en nt tenn>,_ ~ by tbe dooior immerthitcly aficr :t had bee. inflictrd. the chances of recovery wonb havo p,-*.-, greater. Tbe de-rmsitioc of ,_t ceceascd was read. In i; he stared that ht was -tabbed ar the door hy his f3l her wbf « be had not provored. This eoncludet t_>e p-ridence. Hn d eouuse'i addressed th; jury. The jtirr. after an absence of thirtvfive r_jn»nes. rcrunicd to ronrt with": yerdict of guilrr by a majority of in t0 3 bur linan-imot-sly re-nrntn-Dried the prksone; r " raor-y ™ the ground of the proyoca.;-,-he had receired.