THE TE AWAITE MURDER CASE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12584, 23 January 1905, Page 3

THE TE AWAITE MURDER CASE.

ACCUSED^-COiDnTTED FQR TRIAL. Per Press Association. "WELLINGTON, January 21. On the lesnmption of. the - CollJnson murder case to-day John Crawford, a shepherd, deposed that a telescope and other articles were taken from the whare at Stoney Creek adjoining-'.'Te.Awaite; abaut the end of January of last •"• b' "i Jdhn Grant, ..overseer of the Waipawa out station at Te'Awaitie", said "Be sawthrough a telegcpne the "accußld-'mari, McKenzie or Ellis,.'on tfie'bank oi' the> Te Awaite river, the first week in February, 1904. Accused was carrying a rifle. 0h the morning of Coilinson's death he "noticed where a camp fire -had .been lit'alongside a sheep or cattle track, and signs of someone having slept there.' There was a small footprint about ten yards away on'-th'e opposite side of the stream frorrj' where the fire wji«. v&e' "time,' early in February; when' he saw. accused and thß Mme of Colliiison's deathj he-sW : no stranger "abo.uf the run. It was easy for' a man to camp out there without being seen. Albert Walters, a bush-worker, employed by Collinson, deposed to a een. vereatlon with accused concerning, {fee kill-

mg of sheep and deei He also said that accused used to weai a fairly small boot; perhaps size seven Evidence vis given that accused had been seen in the locality on the morning of the murder and that after his arrest he admitted being Ellis and stated to Detective Broberg that it was against hu man nature for a man..to..give .himself--up-when he knew there was a lot of evidence against him. Prisoner, who reserved his defence, ■- was committed for trial to the ne-?t criminal sittings