THE NEW PLYMOUTH MURDER

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7552, 15 May 1890, Page 5

THE NEW PLYMOUTH MURDER

[rasss AMoaiATtos «nLaeftAtt.j ' NfiW PLYMOUTH, May:l4C^ After the telegraph dosed Miaa W*W was severely cross-examined by the Otowo Prosecutor as to her identification of tliic deceased on Friday, at one o'clock. 3s6i evidence of the witness was. unflhakfen. She said she was perfectly sure it ww Maloney, and thab iewaa Roiny xnih« direction of his home. ~-., .■, George Watsoia, a travelling cutter and umbrella maker, and living at ppw, eaid he knew Mahi Kai by eigbt, «w ac aaw him, in the Salvation Army barsaott, where ha eat alongside of hi» Jittite boy« Saw Mahi every night for a week.. $n Friday, April 11th, between eleven' aaci twelve o'clock was sharpening, knaves jJb front of the restaurant in Devon afterwards went to the telegraph gsfoe,, to send a telegram to Napier, and .',«%»-,* Jp&i on thftfc Friday between eleven aaCifjebce alongaida his grinding xas.Qhin.f,, the restaurant and ehook hiwida with, ium. George Grey, counter clerk in the.lCe|f» graph Office, produced a telegram sent, jjf Wilson on Friday, April the 3,lth, He gave evidence also to prove -t&eft beside the mark on the telegram ei*tia« it" was received at noon, WUeon handed it in at thab hour. , , \ jj L^, After 2 p.m. the evidence of the Wilson was continued. Hβ withdrew the statements he had made to the police about seeing Maloney on Friday* a* he found he had made a mistake. It wm Thursday the events occurred o£ whio&ne told the police, but he wee certain ttotJ?e saw Maloney on Friday all the sacae. T|xa . witness refused to state what , buelsieMi he carried on formerly,in Wellington,,' is now a scissors-grinder. Ho declined to say whether he had eves been, known under a different name. He ewojf© oH, nia oath he did not know bis name* t npr did know his father. ';■""•;' >j