SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.
(BY. TELEGEAPII—rREES ASSOCIATION.) ■ • Cisborrie, March I; The case of Haro Matenga,.tho Maori, who for several years defied pursuit by tho police in.: the backwoods of this district, -wis-con-tinued before'the' Supreme' Court to-day prisoner being charged: with theft from a bush camp. : Counsel for thodcfenco raised this, question of sanity, and called prisoner, 'who rotated tho story of his adventures; Matenga said tho primary reason ho. took to" tho bush was about a horse, aud ho was afraid jf he was caught ho would bo shot. On many occasions he had hoard shots in'tho bushy and thought it was uoople after'-him. He took tho eun from tho camp because they had fired at him with.it., . .. < Matenga was convicted and: sentenced to -twelve months 'imprisonment, on the two oharges brought agaiiist him.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 8
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