JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.

Evening Star, Issue 3404, 19 January 1874, Page 3

JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.

The should have been the heading to the Caledonian specimen stealing case, which has occupied the major portion of the present criminal session of the Auckland Supreme Court, and led to the discharge of two juries without a verdict being arrived at. The prisoners are two young men named John Hawkins and George 1 Sly, and the principal witness against them is one Catherine Gleeson, a widow, who has lived with Hawkins for some time as his wife. She tells very circumstau wally now on one Saturday evening in June; Hawkins told her how he, Sly, and a man named Hall were going to get specimens ; how that night after she went to bed some one came into her house and thrust a carpet bag into her bedroom, and that the bag on examination proved to contain specimens; and how on the following Monday night the three men divided the spoil among them. In her cross-examina-tion she gave the reasons that induced her to split upon them Hawkins and I had a row and 1 determined to have my revenge He went to Parawai with Bessie Maxwell on the day of sports, and drank with her, and when I asked him for some silver Bessie Maxwell hissed me, and Hawkins knocked me down. I then went and told the story of the specimens. I was faithful to Hawkins. I believe I am a widow. I never deceived Hawkins. I told him the truth, and the whole truth. He never promised to marry me, nor did he say that since he'found out that I had a husband alive he would have nothing further to do with me, i should never have split, on Hawkins if he had acted the part of a man towards me, I had supported him when he wanted a friend, and I i, not ,i lke to . see him parading Bessie Maxwell at Parawai. i I was angry, as any. woman would be under such cii cumstances. My husband I believe died in Sydney about eighteen months ago. I was -near my confinement when Hawkins knocked me down on the Parawai racecourse. The child of which I was then pregnant was born dead. It was killed when I was knocked down, I say from my experience aa a, married woman that fi kiUed the child. I would never have told the police hut for what Hawkins did to me.'