CHARGE OF MURDER

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2957, 21 December 1916, Page 5

CHARGE OF MURDER

'ARISING OUT OF AN INQUEST. By Telegraph—Press Association. Waipawa, December 20. The adjourned inquest on the-body of George Dodd, the'victim of the riverbed tragedy, on December 10, was held to-day. .■•- • Joseph AYainwright, mate of the murdered man, stated that he awakened to find Patrick Kiely kneeling beside Dodd, slashing at his throat with a razor. He endeavoured to pull him off, and Kiely.-' attacked him, inflicting wounds on the leg and neck. Witness later returned to Dodd and found hira dead. He went to Kiely and said: "My mate is dead, and you have killed him." Juely replied that he was better dead than alive. Witness denied that there had been much drinking on the Saturday night, and so far as ho knew Keily had none. _ Constable O'Halloran deposed to finding a blood-stained knife concealed in Kiely's camp. He charged Kiely with committing the murder and ho said: "Dear me. I did not think it Was as bad as that." He took Kiely to where the body was lying in the scruh, and looking _at deceased Kiely said: "His throat is cut like. a sheep's. I suppose they will hang me up by the two heels;" Later Kiely said: "I do not Temember doing it. Maybe I did, and maybe I did not. I don't remember interfering with deceased. , Perhaps his mate did it." Thore was blood on Kiely s coat, trousers, and hat. The Coroner returned a verdict that "from the evidence adduced deceased, George Dodd, mot_ his death at the hands of Patrick Kiely." At a stains; of the Court subsequently. Kiely was charged with mui,der and was remanded till to-morrow