THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11610, 12 August 1892, Page 2

THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY.

« THE. INQUEST. (Per.United Press Association.) iNVBECABain, August 11. The inquest on the Lora Gorge murder was resumed this morning atWintonand. is still going on. Nothing yet elicited has thrown any light on the tragedy. Mrs Bell now says that from a conversation with her husband in the house' she came to the conclusion that Mcßrae did not shoot him. Later. Bell's daaghter Jennie, deposed that the accused had told her he would put a ball through the head of Bell's cow if it trespassed. She also admitted that sho had cried to her mother, whilerunning <fo the place where her father was found,, that her father was shot by John Mcßap. This was before she had seen her father, or heard him make any statement. ' , Sergeant McDonnell gave evidence tbab Moßae sent for him in gaol and made ■ a stateniont to the effect that on the 18th May, 1891, he saw the guv found where Bell was murdered. in the hands, of Pat „ Walsh, who was out shoofctnjj ducks. ■ Ho .(.Mcßae) took hold of it and had a look: .at if; and said it was not Taylor's (Walsh's employer) gun, and he (Walsh) said it washis own.-Mcßae would swear-that the ramrod (a manufcu stick) that he saw. in witness' hands after the minder was, th^same as Walsh had in the gun. „,, At the conclusion of the evidence the, ;3Ury:.return( i d a verdict that Bell was, murdered by so'mo person or perrons uri;kUQWnv' '