SUPREME COURT.- CIVIL SITTINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 7875, 6 April 1889, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.- CIVIL SITTINGS.

Friday, April 5,

(Before His Honor Mr Justico Williams.)

WIS MILL V. OALLIE ANU OTHERS. The following concludes our report:— Elizabeth Hill, widow, deposed that she knew the late Mrs Winniill. She was a nice girl and well-behaved, and always spoke fondly of her mother. She came to witness's house by herself and asked witness to take her in, as she had been turned out of her homo. She remained for six or seven weeks, and then said that she wished to be reconciled to her mother. Witness said : " Go, and if you can't agree come back and I will take you in again." Witness was not intimate with the family. One evening some months afterwards Mrs Gallie met witness in the street and said that witness had no right to take her daughter in. Witness replied that if she had not done so she might have been on the streets. Mrs Gallie replied : " That's where I would like her to be." There was more said, but that was all that witness could remember. Cross-examined : Witness did not believe that Cassie was the sort of girl who would go wrong in the sense of becoming immoral. Andrew Mercer's evidence was then read. It was to the effect that after Gallie left off business he got worse and more imbecile, and might be called a harmless, silly man. Ruth Hill was called and asked what sort of girl Cassie was, when Mr Chapman objected to this line of evidence as inadmissible, and Mr Eraser uaid he would not press it.

James Gebbie (gardener) deposed that ho had resided in Dunedin since 1848, and knew Gallie very well in the early days. After Gallie went to Leith street he was worse in his speech, and witness would take him to be very childish— not like what he was in his smithy days. During the last year or two witness saw Gallie he could not carry on a connected conversation. If Gallie was given anything to do, such as to get water or gather scrub, he would do it, but witness looked on him as a child. Witness would not say Gallie would not sit down and read at the Stak, but ho believed lie could not follow the sense.

Cross-examined : Witness could not say how long it was before his death that he had had conversations with Mr Gallie,

The Court adjourned at 5,15 until halfpast ten this (Saturday) morning.