TRIAL OF HIROKI.
Prisoner Pleads Self-Defence.
[by telegraph.]
New Plymouth, To-day. Hiroki was brought up at the Police Court this morning at 10.30 o’clock, and charged with murdering Mr McLean. Mr Standish, with Mr Samuel, appeared for the prosecution. The first witness called was Charles Messenger, who deposed that he ha seen Hiroki at Parihaka, and m the
course of conversation with him, he
(the prisoner) told him that when at Momahaki the surveyors had been in the habit of killing his pigs. He had warned them, the prisoner said, several times to desist. On the day of the murder he heard the dogs at the pigs again, and then he got up to where McLean was. He had some words with him about killing the pigs. Hiroki said McLean threatened to shoot him, and if he (prisoner) had not shot McLean, McLean would have shot him. The witness added that Hiroki paraded the gun at the meeting at Parihaka. Dr Croft deposed that he made a post mortem examination on the body of McLean. The witness then described the wound, and the case was adjourned until to-morrow.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 497, 21 November 1881, Page 2
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188TRIAL OF HIROKI. Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 497, 21 November 1881, Page 2
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