THE CHEMIS CASE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4461, 30 August 1889, Page 2

THE CHEMIS CASE.

(by telegraph,) Wellington, August 29. The perjury cases were resumed thfa morning. Warder Coyle eaid he had Instructions to make a thorough search for anything that might throw a light on the murder, and obeyed them. Ho was out altogether about 2h days. William Skey, Government analyst, said he had examined the knlfo and sheath fonnd by Lowe for signs of blood, but found none. Ho thought they had been in the water for weeks; at least, if the articles lay in running water any stains would almost oertalnly be washod away. Continued rain would have the same effect. There was a good deal of rust on tho knife. The reßt of the afternoon was devoted to finishing the cross-examination of Round, Greaves, and Gibion. Gibson had left Hodge's shot ponoh at OhemU', and Hodges had deposed that there was no piature on this ponoh. It was on this point that most of the questions turned, the defenoe apparently aiming at showing that the pouoh had been in Chemls' possession, and had probably been plsoed where found by him, while the prosecution tried to show that the knife and pouoh had never been in Chemls' house. A good deal of attention was devoted to the question of ploture or no picture. Round dlßtinotly swore that he had never aaid anything about a ploture being on the pouoh in conversation with Gibion, Greaves, and others. Greaves as distinctly swore that Round did say so. Round also said that he had no doubt whatever that the pouoh shown to him yesterday was tho one he had borrowed from Greaves. He was also qulto sure Gibson said he gave the pouch to Ohemls. Gibson thought he had given seven or eight bnliets to Chemls, but did not seem very oertaln about the number. He left the bullets and sheath knife at Ohemls' beoauso he did not want to carry them home that night. He got the knife baok again tho night before Good Friday. Ho had never seen a sheath knife at Chemls', nor tho knife or sheath found by Lowe. He also mentioned that Mr Harris ooald (?) say there was a ploture on the ponoh; bnt, in answer to the Court, it appeared that the pouoh ho left at Chemls' must have been Hodges'. Greaves wbb closely questioned bs to whether ho had been talking over this matter of the Bhot ponoh with Ohemls' friends slnoe yesterday, bnt denied that ho had said anything to them. Mr Bell quoted from tho depositions to show that the witness gave different answers to his questions to-day to what he did yesterday, and Greaves retorted that he had been made to ooniine himself striotly to the question asked, and was not allowed to make any explanation, He also mootionod that when ho asked Ohemls for Gibson's pouch, Ohemls said he had not got it. Mr Bell wanted to know why he did not say so yesterday, but Greavos said ho had not been asked. Mr Bell asked witness several times whether he was telling tho truth, and Greaves said he was to tho bost of his belief. His story after all did not differ materially undor tho influence of the explanations from what witness said yesterday. Ho reiterated tho statement that he had never Been tho knife or sheath found by Low at Ohemls'. Tho Court adjourned till to-morrow. Angust 30. Oa the perjary case being resumed this morning, Mr Graham, R.M., said that he intended to exclude all evldenoe relating to tbe discovery of the pouoh and knife last Sunday from the oase, as they were not relevant to the oharge. He would receive no further evidonoo on that point, Mr Jolliooe said it had been snggosted by the defenoa that the articles had boon la the possession of Ohemls, and tho onuß of ownership bad been thrown on the prosecution. He would tender the evidence, and the Court could rejeot It if it thought proper. The evldenoe this mornlog was unimportant. Mr Jelllooo wished to prove that the knife found on Sunday oould not produce the cuts made in Hawklnga' clothes. The Court upheld Mr Bell's objeotlon that the evldenoa was irrelevant. After further unimportant evldenoe, Mr Jellicoe intimated that the oase for the proseontlon was dosed and that he would address the Benoh in the afternoon.