RUA’S TRIAL
(Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 11. One month's hearing of the Rua trial was completed to-day, and the seventieth witness entered the box during the afternoon. William Cubbledick, ranger, of Rotorua, who entered Maungapohuhu with the police party, detailed the happenings on the plateau. He said that when the first shot was fired witness looked in the direction from which the sound came. His glance fell on Constable Skinner who was looking into the gully. His Honour : Was Skinner in the direction when the shot came ?—No. From your point of view Skinner was to the left of the sound of the shot and to the right as you looked at him. —Yes. Tu further relation to the firing of the first shot witness said he heard a constable call out sharply, "That is the man who fired the first shot.” The officer pointed, and witness looking in the indicated direction, saw a native running away. Witness did not know who the constable was. He merely noticed that the man who called out was wearing a uniform. He could not identify him.
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Southland Times, Issue 17783, 12 July 1916, Page 5
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185RUA’S TRIAL Southland Times, Issue 17783, 12 July 1916, Page 5
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