WHICH IS RIGHT?

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15173, 11 January 1915, Page 4

WHICH IS RIGHT?

TO THS EDITOR OF "■THK PRESS."

Sir, —In your issue of current date you publish what purports to be a Press Association report of th© inquest held at Mangaweka on January 6th and 7th touching th© deaths of Joseph McCann, Lucy McCann, his wife, and their thirteen months' old boy, who were found brutally murdered "in their liom© at Ruahine. Concerning th© man. Arthur Rottman, accused of th© murder, the report you publish contains th© follow-: ing paragraph: "Detective-Sergeant Rawle, Wellington, deposed to arresting Rottman. Th© latter said-in reply to tho charge of murder: "lam guilty. I know I'm done. God punish the man who brought 'mc into this country.' " I believe that in your morning contemporary, which also claims to publish th© Press Association report, the last sentence in Rottmau's confession reads thus: "God punish th© man who brought liquor into this country." Seeing that they both claim to com© from th© same source, will you kindly tell mc which of thes6 versions is correct..— Yours, etc.,

W. J. WILLIAMS Sumner, January Sth.

[Tho telegram which was lifted from our evening contemporary, was published exactly as received, and, we observe, appeared in the same shape in North Island evening papers. We shall be pleaded to show our correspondent the original "message if ho desires to see it. The Wellington morning papers, however, printed the same version as our local contemporary, and it is possible this is correct.—Ed. ''Tbo Press."] , '