The Mad Town Clerk.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 250, 27 February 1894, Page 2

The Mad Town Clerk.

DETAILS OF THE INQUIRY. HE CONTEMPLATED WHOLESALE -'MURDER. Sydnky, February 17 Some startling evidence was tendered at the inquest on the body of Mr W. Paisley, Mayor rofßurwood, .who was shot by W; Red fealn-, Town Clerk. The first witness was Alderman Archer, in whose, bouse Paisley died. He deposed that he had also been threatened, bat had taken no notice of the threats. K. B. Kenway, Inspector of Nuisances, also stated that he warned Paisley on Saturday that Redfearn had expressed his intention of injuring Mm, and advised him not to go to the Council Chamber on Monday, but that Paisley said "As long as I keep him^in front of me, I am not afraid, because*! will watch him very closely, and immediately he taises his hand I will knock him. down. I know he is very cunnii*g» but I think I am as sharp as hd IS." At the declaration of the poll Dh Friday, Redfearn behaved in suspicious way, and witness shepherded him then, as he was afraid that ije would injure Paisley. * „ ~ : Considerable sensation was caused by the production of Redfearn's notebook, in which were newspaDer .cftttings giving accounts of thV'asusassination of Harrison, "Mayor '. of Chicago, across btie of which was written in RedfearnV handwriting — "Turned out of good dffiqe by him ; so die all tyrants." . <0h another was written—" Paisley, deserved it." In a memo, book the following entry was found : — " However Monday night's work may finish, I mean to have Paisley first, because he has ruined me and all my belongings, and the sole cause is that I have done my duty, in refusing his assistance, and making him pay £615 for work he had done by the Council. Paisley first, Hennessy second, Schools third, Archer fourth." The names mentioned are those of three other Aldermen of the Burwood Council, against whom Redfearn had a vindictive feeling. The juiy returned a verdict that Paisley died from the effects of a revolver shot wound wilfully and feloniously inflicted by Redfearn. — Post. »