STRANGE CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNMENT IN CHEMIS' CASE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8535, 27 July 1889, Page 2

STRANGE CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNMENT IN CHEMIS CASE.

MR JELLICOE RECEIVES' A REPLY

FROM GOVERNOR. Mr Jellicoe has received a communication from Government Housd witu reference to Chemia' case, but tbe nature of it has not been mado public. During the evening of Wednesday Mr Jellicoe wrote to the Government repeating his application to be allowed to have a private interview with the prisoner. The Premier at once replied that the matter would be considered on Thursday, but owing to the stonewalling in the House, it is supposed, Mr Jellicoe's letter has not yet been replied to. Mrs Chemis wrote to Mr Jelliooe on Wednesday as follows :—": — " Please do not believe the statement in to-day's Times thitt ray husband is in any way dissatisfied with what you have done and are doing. It is untrue. I saw him yesterday, and he expressed himself quite satisfied and thankful."

Colonel Hume, in company with Detective Kirby, was engaged on Friday morning in making searching enquiries in Kaiwarra aud the surrounding district with reference to the statements made ac to the condemned man's innocence. In the afternoon they were continuing their investigations in town. Ihe result of tbe enquiries will not be made publio until after they have been considered by the Government.

A letter in the Post from an ex-detective of Scotland Yard (Mr L. Forbes), now touring the oolonies for the benefit of his health, says bis experience in Great Britain mostly in murder coses forces him to the conviction that the condemned man is not the murderer. He saja that this opinion is not formed from newspaper reports, but from his own observations, he having been in Court the whole of tim time that the trial was proceeding.