TRIAL OF LOUIS CHEMIS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8521, 11 July 1889, Page 2

TRIAL OF LOUIS CHEMIS.

MA.N SEEN WITH A GUN-NOl CHEMIS. [l»BR PRSRS ASSOCIATION.] (Continued from yesterday). On the Court resuming after loijh, Stephen W. Green was examined, *Jq lopossd to picking up two pieceß o'^e Evening Post of November 19, whioh \ T Bell explained fittod a torn copy o£ tilj same issue iv Chemis house. Peter Joseph said that on the night jf the murder he was coming from Khandallab to Kaiwarra by a ahort cut 3ver ihe hills, and saw a mail, carrying a double-barrelled gun, approaching the track from the left. He wna aome distance ahead of witness, who never got nearer thnn 100 lyardi to him. This man Bventually left the track near Kaiwarra, and disappeared into some stnnted bash in the gully. He took the direction of Hawkins' land. Witness could notreoognise the main, but it was nol Chemis, and ho wore a dark coat, light trousers, and>linht tweed hat. He told the polioe £■ fortnight Hgo, and had previously told his employer (Mr Pomfret) and % laborer named Piaws, with whumho tisited the scene of the murder on Sunday June 2. In answer to Mr 8011, witness said the traok by whioh the strange man disappeared led, but not directly, to Barber's slaughterhouse. When he first saw him bo was, as near as he could judge, coming from the direction of Hftwgin'a house. Henry Norman and Cecilia Phillips gave unimportant evidence. William Skoy, Government analyst, repeated the former evidence as to examining the dagger and clothes found in the prisoner's house, bat he ooald find no trace of blood. E. Bradford, Goferament armourer, corrobrated his evidence given in the lower court. In cross-examination, Bradford said he was strongly of opinion that both barrels of the gun found at Chemis 1 were not fired on the same day. The Court adjourned, at 6 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Thursday.