A QUERY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2287, 22 November 1889, Page 2

A QUERY.

The following lettee ftppeited In tht

••ness yeaiejrdoy morning, concerning the above « - ~ Sir,— Jßalng plaaed In an awkward position yesterday, and not knowing how to aot, I have ■ question to aak; butbeforo doing so, I will make a statement. I am living by myaelf on the Barnbam toad, near GreendaJ.B, Yesterday, juat after I had my d.t&ner, a man rode up to the gate »sd called oat to me. I went to him. He aaid, "Have you, any horsa feed f " He was a young man, with a ted, freokled face, shaved, with a brown moustache, light oheok trousers, dark ooat and veat, doublod-peaked tweed hat, and silver watch ohaiD, with graenstona hanging to lt» He waa on a small bay pony, with a bag of provisions trader tha saddle. He bad a leather bag under hts arm, with a revolver, shot »*ud ballets la it, In hie hand he held a Blngle-barial fowllng-plece, oapped and cooked. Ho said it had a ball In i' tt Not liking the look of him, I said I had no feed to sparo, He said, I've oome ft long way and I must have it. He said If he did not got what he wanted he would use the gun, That, he aaid, would get him everything he wanted. He then said Don t you know me 2 I'm TilleU I got out of gaol. Tha "slops "are after me. aua ru shoot tha fi»t I see. Thinking him a madman I fed his hone, with ther gun pointing 4t me most of the time. £ had to boll the kettle and make him sometea. He had m the bag a loaf of newbread, some batter and sugar and oats) mixed. He was jabbering nonsense all the time. He never let me out of bJst sight all the time till he let me go In tha ne*t room for some sugar. In that room I had a shot gen loaded and oapped. At first I thought of covering him with It t on uecDnd thoughts I came to the oonolusion that if he was out of his mind ha might ralae his gun, whloh waa lying on. his logp, and then I should have shot him m the head and klllad him, ao being afraid of the law, I had to submit to bft ordered abont by a madman with a gun Id hla hand. Everything he had he said he h *d stoles and to-night he would have a blanket. I had to humor Mm m every thing, Ha said beoause I had been good to him ha IS!! n0t w U i t me> oe lie would have taken my haok. ™^ fte * \ whlle * hQ leffc n* 9 °n *na S« « h° h&k mot|n^inß, where he said the pol tea, would never find him. I hay» nat wrlten h^t wh at happened or half the annoys,, j waß pafc tOi Under theia olroutp; dtaooaß| oirj jhoald. I have been E 'o«ifc Id ooverlng him with a gun, and IS he made aoy movement to have shot him?