THE MOANATUATUA MURDER. (By Electric Telegraph.) PARTICULARS OF MURDER THE INQUEST AND VERDICT. (From our Special Correspondent.)

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 151, 26 April 1873, Page 2

THE MOANATUATUA MURDER. (By Electric Telegraph.) PARTICULARS OF MURDER THE INQUEST AND V E RDIC T. (From our Special Correspondent.)

Parker and the other missing man turned up yesterday afternoon. They were fired upon l>y a Maori at 15 yardß distance. In the first attempt to discharge the contents- of his piece, the cip snapped. Ifc again coded the gun and 1 attempted to lire, but witlwut success. The man. named Lloyd having jumped from the dray, Mr Parker galloped off with the hoi be, and got out of the Maori's reach, who was on foot ; had the cap been a good one, and the gun not misaed fire, Mr Parker was a dead man. Sullivan, Jones, aiul Rogeis wore together wl>en four natives came down upon them ; the natives all armed. Jones, hnmediatedly becoming conscious of the danger, advised his mates to run for it, which all three did. They made a long detain, having to. go jound swamps and through fern. It was with much difficulty and great exertion that Jones and Rogers managed to escape. Had it not been for Jonc*. Rogers would have been murdered also ; Jones knowing the tr.iek, kept hnnbclf cool and collected, making Rogeis, who was very much excited, keep before him. Sullivan ran, it appears, with Jones and Rogers for about three-quarters of a mile r when he stopped, completely exhausted and unable to go nny further. Ke was heard to say : "I am done ; I shall stand (lood-byc j take care of yourselves." He tried to hide. About iiminutcb after Jones and Rodgora left him, they heard n shot /ired, und did not hoo Sullivan afterwards. Jonea managed to catch a horse on tin* nmd, und galloped into Cambridge without saddle or bridle. Mnjor Clare and a anitill detachment of men brought in the body of Sullivnn, which was horribly mutilated. The bend had been cut oil*, tho bod\ rut open, the heart torn out , and part of the liver, lungs, Ai\, Ijing about. Tho hend and heart had been carried aw.ij -, no truce of them to bo found. Siillnan Imd firit been whot from behind. The body had been brought, in and left ut the Duke of Cambridge Hotel. Tho inquest win hold tu>da\. Tho follow ing wore the juntnen i — Mr Scaraneke, coroner j Mr Jnmea Forreit, foreman; Major Wilson, Mc*m*h Thompson, McVeigh, Hrilh, JHewitt, Pearson, Robinson, Small, '.Campbell, Rtmcinmn and Kllin. The CMtlence occupied six hours. After it« conclusion the following \ordict was returned: " That Timothy Sullmin was wilfully and brutally murdered hv Poutorou, othorwise named Hell, nnd three other nntives, names unknown, ono of whom is supposed to bo Wira, and the third Paul ; to which the following rider whk added: That the C^overnmcnt bo requested to adopt such measure? as will prevent tho roetmvncc of pitch horrible outrages." Meeting to be held to morrow at six o'clock. Settlers terribly indignant.