The BARRABA MURDER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2752, 22 June 1894, Page 3

The BARRABA MURDER.

(PBE PBBBS, ASSOCIATION.) '"'»"• * SYDNEY, June 21, . , The case for the Grown in tb.6 Barra " mnrder trial has closed. Cnmming, 6 SVS V t of ;^ev f^c'nßed', jwhen called , on for , I !*defenoei protested bis entire innocence the cringe, and said that before\God t! k t following W«B the, true qtato ol the oaBe; Two.me^ipatQe to him and asked jbbe lot of ahorse, that, they; intend) to stick up tbeibankiin the' township, at In return they would let him stand in dividing tbe spoil. '* They also took a rac horse withoot his^knowledge. > He m the two men after hfl;ietnrned to Barrat by appointment, when 1 they told him the had stuck nrj tbe" bank, and' the manage had been shot. They asked him to pile '6ieW Vo''foe ;; 'roughest' oonritry in tfa diatriot, which he did. The men'kille the .horses, and "Be" only removed th brands to-core'en 'himself.'; : Leee, theotbe pr¥onVr7\lso ma^^tomenX • ' h pajtij;— .«• I. have knowledge of, one man 1 "death/anddoflo^meanto have a seoom life on!my n bftnds;)?;J therefore deolar onmming;.t6r I bff ! Bblirel'y iniiooent. Hi . is true. I was' the man' wh< bb'rrbVsd ! ihe Eorae 1 from him, fend tok "fiim'it Was intended to rob. the fakrlk, anc •woitld iet J htin' J^ve''a* |l fan(i f in' of the money. He* wak jo pjant the ' money and BenS ; oqj sna^e itTSy'dnej, when tbe affaii f haa blown 'over." Colnniingl'bad. nol 'finlshVd his statement whenihetelegrapb V-"" *'"• -' '"" J ;; f V Jane 22. • ! '-lice ' oomp\6i6i his^statement - without admittifig'more- than'Wbuld cliEfar Comtiling and by pioking holes . in the police j ohkirr bf '■ ewdenoe ■ cbijo^ng' ' J hiia own 'ldlntity 1 / Counter's 'address' 'to the jury arewoceeding. , ' '..',.