TELEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 6 December 1912, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

THE WAIHI TRAGEDY.

INQUEST ON HVANS.

MORE! SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE

WOMEN 1 TO THE 1' FORE.

(By Telegraph. —Special.)

WAIHI, December 6. The inquest in connection with the death of F. Ejviansi was resinned this morning. Lengthy- evidence was given by Kathleen * Hislop, sister of a striker who went to gaol. She said th:i* Ek-'aea w»t out from the. back of the liall first; She followed sloselr hebind!, E>va,n«/ 'fan' tih.roup'h' tljf' feirce. Se followec! "ten y:ird& "behind him, She saw a crowd of workers comingl round the sidle of the Union Hall, and as soon aisi they .saw Efvans getting tihrough the fence they pursued himi. There were no police with them:. 'She. saw 1 EivJante' fall. Silie ithoueht he tripped, and then she saw a, constable run up to Efvamis and while the latter waisi lying 1- full length on the ground :ii constable stoopedi and struck Evans on the bateik of the eai" wiit!h. a" baton. Afterwjaird's ft worker struck Eivans on the head' with a. fca.ton or stick. Thefl a numtber suimmnded_ him and 1 alppeared to kick him. She saw. no 'revolvers, but just before- Evans got throaigh the fence she heaii'd a revolver shot., which slie thought' wtmfe fromi m Won-lker. Eiyans was ruinixinlg at the time. 'r-vA Ms action did not indicate-he. had fired. She had:made a statement) to a detective within hrlf an hour of the occurrences of bha|t- moniin^. She was as oliear in her mind' now as then tliat Evans did not shoot Wade. The case 'is. proceeding.