THE MURDERER WINIATA.
j :ii ■■• ;-[BTB!*EEtEGBAB.B] -.. ,!-ki»- .. I i AueK*i,A«©} July 6. i' Sergeant McGovern -has secured an : important witness jp the Winiafa : case, , a half-caste named Clements Newton, lo whom W iniata confessed the-Qircumstance of the murder.at Kuiti 1^880." Mr Gilmoulr, p6sfmlas'te , r'iil? , Raglfcn, took down ''the jiaTPcaste's statement at r the time, he <h*vjng told thatlgenlWmandf^Wlniata's conversation. The written" statement is forthcoming.' " , Jewt!dn •'arivid to-nigSt with Gottstable Oitfes. I '.. ' July 7. The -Wiriiatai case .was proceeding at, , , the Pf-phce *.€|o,url( l tjC!»day. < ..Mr Purdy prosep^ted, , and Mr r>,nfaur defended. ' The principal point adduced was that'" Winiata was seen, to enter Packer's' room an hour b fore the finding of the' body, and Packer • ' was ! heard to ' exclaim, [''Halloa, what do you want here?" '■-. ■•• -. ii. Later. The Packer murder case lasted all day, aha was adjpurued 'till to-morrow, when . Barlow and Clement Newton, and ah important fresh, witness, will be examined, I and the case eoncl'uded.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 7, 8 July 1882, Page 2
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