TRIAL OF RUA
0 By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, July 11. One month's hearing of the Run trial was completed to-day and the seventeenth witness entered the box during the afternoon. William Cobbledick, ranger, of Rotorua, who entered Maungapohatu with the police party, detailed the happenings on the plateau. He said that when the first' shot was fired ho looked in tho direction from which the sound came, and his glance fell on Skinner, who was looking into the gully. His Honour: Was Skinner in the direction whence the shot came? Witness: No. His Honour: From your point of view Skinner was to the left of the sound of the shot, and to the right as you looked at him ? Witness: Yes. In further relation to the firing of the first shot, witness said he heard a constable call out sharply: "That is the man who fired the first shot." The officer pointed, and witness, looking in the indicated direction, saw a Native running away. Witness did 'not know who the constable was. He merely noticed that the mail who called out was wenrine a uniform. He could not identify liim7
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2821, 12 July 1916, Page 8
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190TRIAL OF RUA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2821, 12 July 1916, Page 8
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