UNDER PAIN OF DEATH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14139, 19 February 1910, Page 3

UNDER PAIN OF DEATH.

THE HAMILTON SHOOTING CASE. STATEMENT I3Y THE PRISONER. Per Press Association. ( , HAMILTON, Feb. IS. John Minton Panll, who was arrested in connection with the shooting case ; at Mystery Creek,: near Hamilton, ou the Sth inst., when, Messrs. Ward and Jordan, bank officials, were - fired at ■ while .conveying ’money from Hamilton - to Ohaupo, appeared on remand 'this ; v . morning on a charge bf attempted murkier. The proceedings. lasted all . day,., and- closed .this evening.: Thirty witnesses were; examined. , Leslie Jordan, who was shot on the occasion, gave formal evidence. Other witnesses deposed i arionsly to . seeing a. man alleged to be accused 'in ' the vicinity of the creek with a gun, V} I since traced to have been previously in his possession. .' . Pauli, when arrested, in a statement denied, ! ’ having been 1 at- the’:'Creekg.jbr'i having any knowledge of the occurrence. , : : : The: evidence showed that : ho. told .V the stableman when ho hired tho-hofsb 1 - bn Tuesday' morning that he was going to To Papa, and that the gun he ‘was then carrying was to be mended there, isi;’ Evidence also showed that ho was sbefc;,}: in a totally opposite; direction : ,it<ppi Papa., , ■" Towards the close of the case a somowhal sensational statement ivas put in. in which accused alleged ho was coerced ■by certain Maoris, to takb:a;hand;in;;tho, : of death. .■■■■'HoAstiatcd^ Maoris, one of whom said their object was to waylay tlio bank officials, and that it ho did not assist on' Tuesday ho would bo a dead man. This was some days previous to the Bth. Pauli. alleged he did not fire the shot which struck Jordaiijk-b^it,-1 that.:afterwards; went .away,:, did;.' '■ The police that all endeavours to find the Maoris implicated .■■ha‘ds;hceh.. , evidence of show:': that: Jib,:: Maoris about; atvthe.Pini&iilfauffi^ ; The of the doctor ’states i < that between eighty add. ninety • shots ‘‘ [(• struck: Jordan, some of which are still embedded. .. '.Ho is suffering from facial .paralysis. _ • Mr. M'Diarmid, on behalf of accused, said no plea would be entered at this stage * Detective Marsaek said it was races- , saiy either to enter a plea of guilty , or not guilty. ' / T ' i>' ' Mr. M'Diarmid still contended that he need enter no plea, and, this being • .; accepted, accused was committed ’for trial at the Hamilton Supreme Court sittings on the 28th inst. J . „ “ ‘ 1 --