RAMSAY AND CAIRNS

Evening Star, Issue 11896, 26 May 1903, Page 5

RAMSAY AND CAIRNS

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On the Supreme Court resuming after lunch to-day, James Nicholson, draughtsman and surveyor, gave evidence that the distance from a point opposite the Union Compaly’s office to the scene of the assault, taking the shortest way for a trap, was 150 yds, and the nearest routu for a person on toot going through the opening in , the railway fence 410 yds. At Ramsay’s request witness also measurer! on the plan' the distance from where the cart was left to Rattray street, and found it to be 88yds; from the corner of Vogel and Rattray streets to the scene of the assault for ft fool passenger was 350 yds, and from Sargood’s warehouse to the scene of the assault, by the road Reid took, 472 yds. Alfred Barnes, Corporation laborer, said that he was carting on the reclaimed ground from 7.30 a.m. on the 16th February. He saw a cart with two horses tied to it at the back of Benjamin’s store. At 11.30, witm.se returned, and found the bav horse gone and the black harnessed up. Witness identified the cart in the police station. Ramsay resembled the man he saw, but witness would not swear to him. The man whom witness saw had a light suit. Thomas Reid, employed by Sargood, Son, and Ewen, said that be always went from the warehouse to the factory on Mondays with the wages. On the ,16th- February he wag carrying £290 0s 2d, and whilst in Richardson street he felt slightly a blow at the back of the head, whereupon he became an conscious. To Ramsay; Ho heard no one behind him before he was struck down. He had taken the money from the warehouse to the boot factory for two years and four months. No attempt had previously been made to rob him. Witness did not suspect anyone of having struck him lie bad never seen anyone following him suspiciously. Adelina Victoria Irvine, residing in RichaidsOn street, said that on the 16th February last, on her way rii town, between halfpast ten and eleven o’clock, she noticed two men near an iron fence on the reclaimed land They were talking. At a quarter to twelve witness again saw the men; they were in Richardson street. Witness /saw them la* or—between one t> clock and a quarter-past one. The next oMaaian on which she saw them wa.s when she identified them at the police station. To tne best of her belief the two men in the dock were the two- she saw in Richardson street. To Ramsay; Witness did not take particular notice of the men when she saw them the first time. One man was then leaning with his arms on the fence, and she did not. see his face, but she saw it on her return from town. She was not positive that Ramsay was one of the men. When she was taken to the police station to identify the two men she did not see any mao in the row with whiskers but Ramsaiy. She saw Ramsay in the court before she was taken to the police station to identify him Bis Honor; Ts that the case, Mr Fraser —that the witness was asked to identify him .after seeing him in the dock ? The Crown Prosecutor: Yes, vour Honor; it was a gross error of judgment. His Honor: It makes her Identification worth nothing. Tho trial was proceeding at.4 p.m