TRIAL OF HIROKI.
{.By Telegraph.] ' ' f lUNITBD Pfeßdß ASSOCIATION.] Naw Plymouth, Thjs Dat.^j "■-! Hiroki was brought np At the Polios Cotur£,. - , this morning at 10.30, and charged. wjfclk . having murdered M'Lean. Mr. Stanaish. with Mr. Samuel, appeared for the prosooution. Tho nrst witness called was Charles Messenger, who deposed that he had seen Hiroki at Parihak*, and ia tha coarse of conversation with him, he, the prisoner, told him that, when at Momahaki, the surveyors had been in the habit of killing his pigs, and h« had warned them. Prisoner said that several time* on the day of the murder he heard doga at the pigs, and when '" 3 ' he got np to whero McLean was, he had some words with him about killing the pigs. Hiroki said MoLean threatened to snoot him, and if he (prisoner) -had not shot McLean, MoLean would have shot him. Witness said Hiroki paraded the gun at the meeting at Parihaka. Dr. Croft deposed that he made % post* mortem examination of tne body of MoLean, and described the natnro of the wound. Tfa* case was then adjourned till to-morrow.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 121, 21 November 1881, Page 2
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185TRIAL OF HIROKI. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 121, 21 November 1881, Page 2
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