THE WAIHAO MURDER CASE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4294, 1 March 1901, Page 6

THE WAIHAO MURDER CASE.

PRESS ASSOCIATION. WAIMATE, February 28. At the Magistrate’s Court, before Major Keddeil, S.M., this morning, Jeremiah McCarthy was charged with having murdered Thomas Sullivan, at TVaihao, on the 12th January, 1895. Mr White, Crown Prosecutor, stated that new evidence would connect the accused With tho injuries from which Sullivan had died, or which accelerated his death. This evideuce was that of two witnesses who were not called at previous inquiries. They would state that tho accused beat the deceased with a heavy stick, and , then assisted him across a paddock to a wire fence and threw him over. Subsequently he took a wheelbarrow and wheeled him out to the road. Next day tho accused took the deceased a considerable distance along the road in a cart. The first witnesses were those called in tho pievious case to establish identity. The only fresh evidence was that given by the accused’s daughter Catherine, who deposed that her father struck tho old man Sullivan several times with a stick like aii axe handle. He knocked him down, and as he could nob walk wheu he got up again the accused lifted'him up and throw him over a six-wire fence. McCarthy then got a barrow, and, putting Sullivan on it, wheeled him down the' road "and laid him alongside a gorse fence. Next evening he put him in a trap and shifted him to the cross roads, where he was subsequently picked up dead.

Ellen McCarthy, another daughter, fifteen years of ago. was being examined when the Crown Prosecutor asked that she bo treated as a hostile witness.

Argument was proceeding on the request when tho Court adjourned till tc-morrow.

Tho accused was sent to the Timaru Gaol.