ALLEGED MURDER AT PAPAKAIO.

Evening Star, Issue 6031, 11 July 1882, Page 2

ALLEGED MURDER AT PAPAKAIO.

[By our Special Reporter.] Monday, July 10. John Warwood's evidence continued: In the creek and along the bank the soil was very rotten and would be likely to wash. The surface water might wash it down. If there waa gravel further up tho creek a flood would bring it down. There were about twenty or twentyfive persons present when the body was being removed. They were standing on both sides of the creek where the body was found. To the Jury : I did not see a spade, shovel, or pick lying about. There was only two or three inches depth of water in the creek. There was not a hole in the creek deep enough for a person to drown himself in. To Mr O'Meagher : Tho shingle looked as if it had been washed there and then washed away again. To the Jury: Beattie was there during a part of the time when the body was being got out The hole was not bottomed, and there might have been a hole there large enough for a person to drown in before the gravel was placed there. Witness did not hear anyone say when the body was removed that they could not dig any deeper. To Inspector Weldon: Beattie wanted to bring more whisky to the house, and witness objected. Ho brought his coat to the hotel, and took his swag on to Georgetown. The coat produced was the same. William Henry Scott, surveyor, said that he had seen the creek where he was informed the deceased was found, and had made a plan of it. (Plan produced.) The distance from the cottage to the creek, where the body was found, was about 104 yards ; and, by the road, anyone would say about 120 yards. At the point marked "coal-pit" there was a drift. Immediately above where the body was found there was a bend i» the stream, tho water of which fell over a root four or five inches high. Close by that root there was a yonng cabbage-tree, the ground round which was much firmer than elsewhere. Tho cabbage-tree had taused the stream to infringe upon the south bank and undermine about Bft from the root. The water struck upon a rock, which prevented any further scouring out in that direction. The water was forced through a very narrow passage at the north end of the rock and the bank on the south side. The holo where the body was found was still inclined to fall away, in consequence of being undermined by the water. There wa3 a scour of gravel. The fall on the north side was 7ft fiom the centre of the stream. The top of the fall was about 15ft above the level of the water. The bank being steep—it having a slope of one to one —the water runs past the scour. Supposing there was a freshet in the stream, the gravel from the scour could not possibly be carried to where tho body was, but would havo been carried in an opposite direction. He had examined the place where the gravel had fallen, and was of opinion that it had been removed artificially with a shovel or spade, and that it had not been a natural landslip. His reason for this was that if it had been undermined the bank would have fallen down in a lump, and that had not happened. It might have been washed down by a heavy flood of water, but he did not think that this had happened, as the ground around was equally as steep, and this was held by herbage. There would havo been furrows, of which there was no appearance. A third way was that springs might havo been found behind it, and the ground was held down, but water would now have been oozing out. The outline generally, at tho upper edge, looked as if a shovel or spade had been used, but he could not find any actual trace of this. Another reason for believing that it was done artificially was that there were footprints in the position that would bo left by a person using a spade. They were not fresh footmarks, as tho moss was beginning to grow. If any gravel was placed near the body it would be washed off by a flood, probably leaving a deposit on the north side, but scouring it out where the body was. Ho could not say whether the gravel had been artificially placed on tho body or not. His conclusion was that the gravel, or a large portion of it, had been taken from the scour. A fresh would have tended to uncover rather than cover the body, especially towards where the head was lying. He had made a plan of tho cottage, which was thirty-six chains from Marwood'a house, and fifty-four chains from tho main road. To Mr O'Meagher: Witness noticed that thero had been a tcries of landslips in the locality. It would have required very great depth of water and subsequent subsidence to have left the gravel on the body. Ho did not think there had been enough rain lately to have swollen tho creek to such an extent. He was of opinion that a shovel, spade, or some other instrument had been used to cause the scour, because there were so.no traces of one having been used, though these had been partly obliterated by water since they were made. Harry Archibald DeLautour, a duly qualified medical practitioner, residing in Oamaru, said : On Monday, the 3rd inst, I came out to make a pout yiwrttm examination of the body of the deceased. The body was in the stable, and the stable was locked up. I spoke to Dugald Allen and told him what I had come for. Allen said thero was no necessity for the examination, as the woman had undoubtedly been drowned, adding that he had charge of the body and did not think he would be warranted in letting me see it. At that moment Constable King rode up and Allen gave him the key. I saw the body, which was that of a well-dressed woman. The chest was partly uncovered, and there was some quartz aid gravel about it. Her clothes wero all wet and disarranged. Thero was a bruise on the right eye and eyeball. There was a handkerchief tied tightly twice round the neck, and tho knot under tho chin. I d'd not like to disturb the body until the jury had seen it. In the presence of the jury I untied the handkerchief, and found a cut on the throat, which on more cloee examination appeared to be three cuts in the direction from left to right. It was too dark for me to make a post mortem examination that night. I received from the coroner that night a canvas bag containing some clothes witli apparently blood-stains upon them. On tho following day I went to the hut with Constable Livingstone, and found there a carving - knifo with a spot of blood on it. I also found a bar of iron and a rasp. These had what I took to bo bloodstains upon them, but which I afterwaids found not to be blood. I also found some spots of blood on the floor, from which I took three chips. I examined the place where the body was found with Constable Livingstone on Tuesday last. The constable pointed out to me some footprints. I saw three or four footprints just above and on the edge of the landslip. They wero not recent footmarks, as compared with other footmarks around them. I could not say how old they were. In conversation with Constable Livingstone I learned that Beattie had admitted giving a razor to Dugald Allen I said I would like to see it. I went to the hotel to seal up the things I had found in the hut, but before sealing them up I asked Allen for the razor Allen seemed startled, and said he had got it. I said I would like to see it, and followed Allen to the bar, where he took a razor from a drawer near the till. The razor was wrapped in paper. Allen gave it to me. It was smeared in blood and what appeared to be the mark of a thumb on the blade, while on the handle were the marks of fingers. [Razor produced.] I produce a photograph of the razor. 1 sealed up all the things, and they havo not been out of my possession until this morning, when 1 give them to Constable Gro\es. On Tuesday, the Ith inst., I mado a pott vurrtcm examination of tho body. I examined the wound in tho throat and found it 2.Un long and about a third of an inch deep. It was the result of three sepaiate cuts, and, although dividing some Email veins, had not injured any vital part. There was another small cut about an inch above tho other cut, and about an inch long, only just through the skin. This wound did not seem to have been inilicted by a sharp instrument, and about the middle of it there was what appearod to be a tear. The edges of

the wound were evidently a proof that thr Wjund had been inflicted in life. I again looked at the razor, and found that thero was a little turn in the centre of the blade, which might give that torn appearance. Tho body of tho dress had apparently been torn open from right to left, and on the neck part of the dross was a hood. The fastening of the hood had recently been broken, as if by force in an attempt to force open the dress. I produce the handkerchief that was round the neck. Deceased had an extra quantity of clothing on below her upper dress, viz., a dark skirt, two darnel petticoats, two linen chemises, and a red singlet. Attached to the singlet and next the skin I found the greenstone pendants produced. Irhe had also other underclothing on. The body was lying in the stable on the back, with tho face turned to the left side—in thesame position, I was told, as it had been found. The left arm was lying across the breast, and the right by the side of the body. Both hands were clenched. There were two bruises below the left elbow. There was another biuise on the left shin two or three inches below the knee. These bruises had been inilicted during life. The body was that of a stout, well-nourished female, fift 2in long. Tho face had a reddish-brown color, such as is found on bodies after about a month's immersion in water. The skin at tho fingers and head had begun to peel off; otherwise the body was in a good state of preservation. The mouth was full of quartz graveL On opening the body, which was very fat, I found the muscles of a bright red color, and the blood-vessels generally in a natural condition. The lungs appeared healthy, though pallid in color, and with plenty of air in them. There was a fragmentary deposit over them, such as is found in tobaccosmokers and coal ■ miners. The heart was healthy, and contained in both ventricles a quantity of dark blood. The liver was enlarged and somewhat fatty, but otherwise it was healthy, but not clogged with blood. The stomach appeared healthy, and contained a small quantity of reddish fluid. There was i.o gravel nor water in it, such as are found in drowned persons. The intestines were healthy. The kidneyß were also healthy, and not clogged; and the bladder was empty. On examination of the head I found the bruises on the eye-ball had ruptured some of the vessels of the iris. There was effusion of blood into the anterior and posterior chambers. The conjunction was infused with blood. On removing tho scalp there was also found a bruise about the right ear, and another severe bruise just above and behind the left oar. This had caused considerable extravasation of blood into the surrounding tissues. The ear-tube was also bruised. There was another severe bruise at the posterior vertex of the head. He removed tho skull and found that the dnra >natcr and pia inaier were congested. The brain itself appeared healthy, though slightly de composed. There was no effusion of the serum fluid into any of the ventricles. There was a marked line round the neck where the handkerchief had been tied. The veins below this line were generally in a natural condition. The veins above the neck were generally congested, and this leads me to the conclusion that the handkerchief had been tied on during life. Below the wound in the throat about two inches, and almost where they were sheltered by the breast, the two muscles the sternal byroid and sternal thyroid—were much bruised. Tho bruises on the head appeared to have been inflicted during lite. I cannot account for the bruises on the muscles, as they were protected by the breast-bone, unless they were eaused by being pressed by the thumb to the frame. Tho wound over the left ear might have been sufficient to cause death by oonousslon. The usual gtgns of death by drowning were not present. To the Jury: It would be difficult to tell whether the wound was caused by a blow or a fall. I should think that it was caused by direct violence. It could have been inflicted by a fall upon a rock. The wound on the back of the head might have cauned death. I do net think that deceased could have walked to the spot from the hut after receiving such blows. There was nothing in the wounds in the throat inconsistent with the supposition that deceased inflicted the wounds herself. I think if deceased had been drowned the body would have been found face downwards. I found no symptoms of deith by drowning. In death by drowning the symptoms are the opposite to those I found. The bruises were recent, and were Inflicted a short time before death. [Witness then went on to say that he had tested the iron bar which, when treated chemically, gave th« reaction of blood, and microscopically he found one or two corpuscles similar to the blood of mammals.] The spot on the carving-knife gave the same result. The blood on the razor gave the blood-test chemically, and on microscopal examination I found mammal's blood on the striped fibre and a red woollen fibre. The ! blood on the handle of the razor gave the chemical test of blood and the alsatrun bands faintly in the spectrum analysis. position of these correspond exactly with those in my own blood. The blood on the chips from" the floor of the hut gave mammal's blood, as c'id also a piece from the inside of a frieze coat which was found in the hut and which appeared to have been washed, and also some blood spots on a sheet. I also tested some fowls' blood on a razor which had been exposed for some hours. These gave the signs of blood by the chemical test and by the spectrum analysis, but microscopically the fowls' blood was plainly seen. It was quite distinct from that on the other razor. I also examined a razor with blood on it from my own finger. I did this to make sure that my tests were correct. I examined the hair found on the handkerchief. It resembled human hair, but I could not yet say that it wa3 human. I also compared it with pome hair cut off the deceased's head, but would not like to swear that it was the same. There was Borne blood on a pair of moleskin trousers found by Constable Livingstone, and gave all idie characI teristics of mammal's blood, though faulty under i the spectrum. I examined all the spots on the velvet skirt, but did not find any blood. The ' spots en the trous.prs were all belov/ the knpp. I have forgotten to mention thai; on the utl; inst. I made some plaster cists (produced) of the footprints near the landslip. I think the immediate cause of death was the shock and concussion of the brain caused by one of the blows on the head. Mr O'Meagher cross-examined the witness at length, and was told that the witness did not think the woman had fallen over the bank and died from exposure. There was no rock near where the head of the body was found upon which deceased could have fallen and inflicted the wounds on her head. She certainly had not died from loss of bl>od. The thumb mark on the razor was that of the thumb of a large man. The mouth was wide open and the windpipe and bronchial tubes were filled with small gravel. In his opinion th handkerchief round tho throat had not caused strangulation ; it might have assisted congestion. Tho handkerchief might have been tied much tighter by a man of ordinary strength. A man could have thoroughly cut a woman's throat with the razor produced without force. Constable Groves stated that on the 2nd inst. he went to Cone Creek Gully. He was shown the place where the body was lying by Warwood and Beattie. All he could see were the toes of the boots, and part of the le't arm and hand ; the rest of the body was covered with earth and gravel. He got a shovel and made a track for the water to run clear of ohe body, from which he removed the gravel with his hands. He then—with the asbistanre of Warwood and others—removed the body and conveyed it to the Peebles Hotel, where he placed it in the stable. There was eight inches of gravel on the head, and about four inches on the re3t of the body, except the parts that were exposed. To the Foreman: Beattie and another man brought the shovel, and he believed it was got from Seattle's hcuse.

To the Jury : The shovel was quite dry and rusty. There was no gravel on it. He did Dot see marks or footprints about where the body was found. The body was lying with the beau to the stream, half on the back, and half on the right side, with the hands in front, "To the Coroner: He did not exnmine the slips. He noticed a bruise on the le*"i eyebrow of the body. In digging he did not strike'thi body with the (-hovel, and it wis impbusiLld' that any of tp.e marks on the body were made in getting her out. To Mr o'Meagher: There were eighteen or twfnty persons present when the body was got out. The water was running in the gravel which covered the head. There was not much water running. The gravel looked as if it had been left there by the water, and it appeared as if the water had been flowing over it. There were no traces or marks of any kind on the gravel over the body. He saw no traces of any struggle at the scene. He found a sort of silk dress or fkirt at the feet of the body in the sand. The body had a kind of shirt. Mr O'Meagher : Where is that skirt ? Witness: I do not know. Sergeant-major Thompson: It was buried with the body. Mr O'Meapher : Buried with the body. What other clothes had she on ? Witness: I do not know. Mr O'Meagher: Where are the other garments ? Sorgrant-rnaior Thompson: They wore buried with the body. Mr O'Meajiher: Why were they not kept? Witness : I do not know. Mr O'Meagher: It is very extraordinary that ;he garments were not kept. *3omc things were kept, and I think these should htwe been kept. It is most important that they should be produced. Witness to the Jury: The skirt appeared to have been fastened with a pin. ' He believed that there had been more gravel on the body before he saw it. The body was not stiff. Beattie was not present during the whole of th«

time the b.,dy was bpin* not out, Ho was excited, audni.d '«>!,! my voh! my Sally." Ho was a little the worse tor lienor. To Mr (Yl)oaghei': Ho was not prepared to ::wear that thero had been mou-.avel on tne body than there wa.< when he saw it ] . Bernard < ■■arroll, -v laborer, nvii.;/ a 1 a;n,. ~,, said he km-v the de.-ensod haiah Ho had an altercation with Alexand,. Beattie on May 27. This was in consequent or J .cat-tie having founl the deceased in witn.-s's house on that night, Ho saw him several times ntiforwards. He paw him on June 11 at Warwooo ■•. Tho woman was then missing. Witness did not know shew.s missing, and though, t she was at Georgetown. Ho heard a rumor that she went to Georgetown on tho "unday after the row. On the night ot the '.!7th came to witness s house and kicked at the door. Witness told him to come in. Deceased put out tho lio lit when she heard the kick. Boattio came in, struck a match, and found deceased under the taMo. Beattie caught hold of her and pulled hor out, and struck witness with a stick. Beattie said ho would take both their lives. Deceased went away with Boattie at about ten minutes to ten. It was all over lu a few minutes. Boattio came back in about ten minutes. He smashed in the door and window, and said he would have witness's life. Beattie went awav, and witness came to tho hotel. Beattie ciino afterwards, and on seeing witness threatened to take his life. On the following Bunt 1 ay he saw him ; also at the hotel that day fortnight (Sunday, 11th). He saw Beattio at Warwood's. Beattie then Baid he would cleave or break witness's head. Beattie was at his house on tho night of the 10th. Beattio knocked several times, and witness got up and went to the door with a knife. Witness told Beattie he would not let him in. Beattio eaid wituess had his wife there, and witness replied that he had not. Beattie then went away. On the 12th he saw Beattie going up to hi 3 house and coming down again with John Howison. On the night of the 11th he had seen Beattie lying on a sofa in the hotel. Witness asked him what ho wanted at his door on tho night before, and Boattie replied that ho was not there. Witness said if ho c& me there again he would catch him at the end of sixty yards if he could, meaning that he would have a pistol. Thero were several persons In tho hotel with Beattie. Ho had not heaid Beatefcie say anything more about deceased beyond what he had stated. To the Jury : He had not h*ard a scufhe outside his howe on the night of the row. He did not hear of t\ skirt being torn off deceased.

To Mr O'Meagher : When Beattie came to his house on thr 10th witness told him if he would bring John Garwood or some respectable person he would op« n the door. Beattie had threatened several timed to take his life, hat he could not remember tie exact words in which the threat was made. He had not from the time of the row until yesterday been any further up the gully than "Warwood's. When deceased was at his house and on the following day blio had on a grey waterproof. The last time ho saw her was on the Sunday night after the row, and when she went to Georgetown. She had on a black dress at ike time. This was on the 4th June. A , -, Constable King deposed that on the oOth May he served n warrant en Beattie for unrig threatening language towards Carroll. He found him r.«; the Peebles Hotel, tho worse for drink. On taking him down the road to 1 apakaio Beattie told him the cause of the row. He said Sally (meaning the deceased) was rottenhearted." ai.l that he would never live with her again. On tho 20th Juno witness met Beattie at the polio station at Oamaru, and he told him that his wife was missing ; that ho had had no doubts as to her safety until he found some jewellery in his coat pocket the previous day, which caused a suspicion in his mind that she had done away with herself. He said the last place he had heard of her was going on the road towards Georgetown about a tortnight previously. He said he had been inquiring all over the town during the day, but had got notrace of her. Ho asked where a man named Kelts lived, as he had been up and bought some fowls from deceased. He could not say on what day witness directed him to where Neiss lived, ancl told him to let him (witness) know the result Beattie returned in about an hour, and said that he could not get any satisfaction. Jseisa wasanxiousiogivehiminformation, but Mrs iNeiss would not allow him to do so. Beattie said he thought his wife had gone to Chnstchurch, and that sho had been there before. He did not see Beattie again until the 3rd hist., when they met at tho Peebles Hotel. Beattie then said ''King, you did not do your duty, oi )ou would have found her before now." Witness replied that Beattie was best interested and should have found his wife, when Eer.ttio said "It is your duty, and you should have iound her. »hc had several times complained to witness of Beattie ill-treating her during the past three yC To' Mr O'Meagher: Ho was quite sure that Beattie said that the last he heard of her was that she was going on the road to Georgetown. John Wallace, a farmer living at Georgetown, said that he remembered Beattie coming to his house with his mate, John May, about eight o'olock on tho evening of the 4th. Mrs Beattio camo there about half an hour afterwards. Beactio asked her why she came after him and they went outside. They were talking vory loudlv, and witness asked them to come inside and'»*y what they had to say and not bring tho whole township about them. I Hey came in and sat down. Beattie told her to go to Barney, as he would have nothing more to do m± her. She said that she would stick to him, and when he attempted to go out she stepped to the door. He passed her and cleared out with his mate John May. Witness told her not to leave the place that night. She said sho was very weak, and asked for a glass of beer We her a cup of tea, which sho drank, but sho would not eat anything. Ho put her to bed, where sho remained for an hour, and then got up and wrung her hands through the house. They put her to bed again. Ihreo times sho got up; the last time sho said she wanted to go home, that sho would go down to Auly M'Auly'*, and that he ro-'ld take her homo in a trap. She went aVaV atabo.t half-past ono o'clock, and they watched her to' M'Auly'B, as he thought she was in n contused state, and did not know what sho was dorn •{. She was flobor, and got no drink in his place. On the following Wednesday (the 7th) Beattie came to his how-o and asked where she had gone to. He told Beattio to go to Auly M'Auly and inquire. Beattie went down, and shortly afterwards returned and said M'Auly hai driven her home. Between throa and o'clock on the 14th Beattio came to hU house and said that he could not riso at Hall's. He stopped that day, and brought a swag which he had at a store or some place. He turned the things out and wanted to sell them. Amongst them were two dress piece*. Beattie wanted witness's wifo to take one, but witness would not allow her to take it. When he came, Beattio said that Mrs Beattie was not at home, and that ho had looked for her. Witness and others, in order to get rid of Beattie, who was drunk, told him that his wifo was at homo. Beattie picked up the dresses and left, leaving the re&t of tho Bwag behind him. . ~,•!£• To tho Jury : He did not notice what kind or boots Mrs feoattio had on when she was at his house on the 4th. Sho had on a dark dress. He could nut say whether or not sho had a handkorchie ' rcund her neck. To Inspector Woldon : It was about two and a-half miles from Hall Brothers' to witness's, and from witness's to Peebles seven miles. To the Jury : Beattie left his houso to go to Hall's about seven o'clock on the 7th. On tho 14th, tvt 10 a.m., he carr.e back. He was dirty and wet, and appeared to be in the horrors with drink all tiie time. Ho -was boating 1113 breatt, saying "Oh, my Sally has ruined me." On the 4th deceasod said sho had beru into Oamaru and made arrangements for the salo of her fowls. Beattie left his house at about half-past five o'clock on the morning of tho loth. Tho coat produced (that with the Bpots'on it) v/as not like the or.o Beattie had on when he was at witness's house on tho 14th. Ho could not swear to anv of *he clothes Beattie wore. rr ~ F- O'NeLvher. Beattie, vi.cn he v/antcd to aeil VhiTthings/ said he had'brought the blankets from the houso near Peebles Ho said he had been to the house, had found it open and nobody there, and that he did not Intend to live there. He did say when he was at the cottage. Tuesday, 3vl\ IB The inquiry was resumed at ten o'clock to day. Frederick Nciss, a laborer, residing in Soutl Oamaru said that ho knew the deceased, am was at 'hor houso on tho 7th Juno—tho lasl time he saw her alive. He went there to bin some fowls. Deceased several times »au "Good God! my husband will kill me Sin said he would do so for somo wrong she had done When he went to tho houso tho blinds wen down and the door was shut. H- called am she came out. Sho was shivering and shakin, very severely during the whole of tho time L reply *o wit.icos she said that her husband wa away drinking. She told him she was no married to Kcattie. and he suggc-tcd that sh was free t>: go »way, and proj-w-d .hat s). should tako a situation -ho t--M him that i her husban* did not kill her nl.v would_!,<: i Oamaru th. ' .ilowing Saturday or on the day after th • Ho had looked tor her on oo these days, hut did not and her. He had to her that s.io should not hv« m the gull alone in trie condition in which she was On the i-oth Beattio came to witness house inquiring after his wife Witness telhii him that his wifo had said ho intended to ki her, he started, changed color, and looked in the fireplace. Beattio told him he had not tol the police that his wife was missing and tho

ho had been away from homo for r.omo time, Boattir afterwards went away. To the Jury : Beattie wan sober when ho ca led at witness's house. When told that his wife had said ho would kill her, Beattie .started and appeared agitated. To Mr I (Meagher: Ho did not notico any .sij.ii „t drink about the woman. He had run about a -rood deal after the fowls on both banks of the creek. He did not believe what Mrs Bcattie had said about her husband killing her, and i.e had not therefore toli auyone about it. Au'ev M'Auly, a fanner at Georgetown, said that Mrs Beattie came to his house about one o'clock on the morning of sth Juno. He let her in. She asked "What did you hear i but witness did not answer. His wife made some tea for Mrs Beattie. Mrs M'Auly said she was sorry for Mrs Beattie as siie was in trouble. Deceased replied " So I am ; I often told you that BoatU- will do away with me be'ore I am done with him." Mrs M'Auley replied that husbands often said what they did not mean. Deceased replied " I am afraid it is a case with mo now." Witness advised the deceased to leave Beattio and take a situation, biie replied that sho was not very strong for work. She asked witness to drive her home, but ho declined to do so at such an hour, and said that he would do so if sho would wait until lour o clock. Witness asked deceased to stay with him for a week. Sho again asked him to drive her home, and ho did so, storting at about fivo o'clock. On the road she said that she was clear of what had been said about her and Barney Carroll. Witness said to her that if ho saw Beattio ho would try and induco him to go back to hor. Sho said that sho did not think that was of any use. He drove her up to tho manse, where sho got out. It was then about tho break of day. She thanked him, and bado him good-bye. She walked along tho main road towards Peebles. I hat was tho last time he saw her. On tho 6th Beattio was at witness's house inquiring for witness, but ho was not in. Beattie came tho following evening at about seven o'clock and was sober. Beattio asked it witness had driven his wife down, and he replied that ho had, and told him where he had left her. Witness also told Beattie that by the way he was carrying on he was killing himself and his wife, and advised him to go homo and make friends with her. Beattio replied that his wife was not Innocent, and said ho could provo It Ho said that ho told her ho was not going homo on tho Saturday night, but had gone and caught her in Barney's house. V, Itness told Boattio that it was best that he should go back, but ho said he would not go back any more. Beattie went away at a little after seven o'clock. Mrs Beattio told witness and his wife that she had received bad usage from Beattio during several years. About a week afterwards Beattie called and wanted Mrs M'Auley to take a dress, but it was declined. Ho thought Boattio had the coat produced on when ho was at witness's house on the 7th. Ho had on moleskin trousers and a woollen vest, and boots liko those produced. To the Jury: When Mrs Beattie was at his house she had on a different dress to that tho body had on when it was found. Deceased said that sho was ashamed to bo seen and that sho would only be in tho place a short time ; that sho was selling hor fowls to raise money to j leave tho place. She had previously said sho would leave the place. ! Edith Warwood, wife of John Warwood, said that tho last timo she saw tho deceased was on Sunday, the 4th of Juno. On Monday, 29th May, 'Beattio came to her place. Ho was muddled with drink. He stayed aomo timo, and then went to his home. Mrs Beattio went up after him. Beattie came again on the 10th, and had tea with them. He told witness at that time that ho did not know where his wife was. Bcattie left for an hour to go for his clothes, and came back and remained all night. He knew his wife was missing tho day before this. Beattie came afterwards and aitked if ho had left a razor or a bundle of clothes with her. Witness brought the bundlo, but thero waa no there. This was a fortnight ago. Previous to this—about a fortnight before she was missing—he found a razor under the bedstead. Beattio showed it to Willett, and Willott said tho blood on the razor was fowl's blood. He said he looked under tin bed, but she was not thero. On May 20 he said ho met tho up the gaily, and ho could not tell how ho kept from knocking her brains out. Witness saw Mrs Beattie the same afternoon, She said B-iattie struck at her, and showed witness a mark on her arm. Witness did not remember which arm. To Mr O'Meaghcr: Beattie" spoke openly about tho razor at our house.