The Trial of ex-Detectiye Kirby.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 304, 30 June 1896, Page 2

The Trial of ex-Detectiye Kirby.

j (Per Press Association.) Wellington, June 29. During the hearing of Kippenberger, solicitor in the Kirby case, Mr Jellicoe, who had been conferring with Sir R. Stout, spoke to tbe prisoner in the box, whereupon Mr Gray, who was prosecuting, asked if Mr Jellicoe was appearing in the case. Sir R. Stout intimated that Mr Jellicoe was appearing with him for accused. Mr Gray said it was his duty to mention that he understood that Mr Jellicoe had been advising Hermann prior to his appearing for accused. It was a very wrong principle for counsel to go upon Mr Martin said that it might be wrong, but that he had no power to do anything in the matter. Mr Gray then intimated that he would take care to bring the matter before the proper tribunal. The incident closed by Mr Jellicoe remarking that he wished it to be understood that he knew his own business, Mr Gray notwithstanding. Mr Jellicoe is acting for Kirby in the libel case against the manager and publisher of the N.Z. Times. Edward F. Bltlndell, manager of the Bank of Mew Zealand atFeilding, who was teller at the Bank in Timaru in 1882, gave evidence that he remembered Hermann cashing a cheque about that time for £400. P. H. Ferguson, watchmaker, Timaru, deposed in February, 1882, he sold Hermann a gold watch for £38. Peter Bell, lessee of a billiard-room in Timaru, declared that in 1882 he commissioned Kirby to take from Hermann a wager 100 to 5 about Lady Emma for the Dunedin Cup. Kirby admitted that he had got the wager on, and offered to take a fifth of it. A day before the races Hermann left for Dunedin. Witness told accused so, but the latter said it did not matter. He afterwards accused Kirby of having received wager money from Hermann, but he denied it Witness then pulled a gold watch out of Kirby 's pocket, and said he believed it was Hermann's. Kirby denied it, and said he had purchased the article from a firm in Christchurch, but on telegraphing to a firm named by accused the answer was that they had never sold such a watch to Kirby. Witness and a man named Pearce again asked accused for their share of the wager, when Kirby said he would ran them ia. He had not received one farthing of the wager money from either Hermann or Kirby. Robert Kennedy, bailiff in the Timaru Magistrates' Court, said one day after Hermann had left Timaru, Kirby came into the office showing a gold watch, which witness thought he had seen Hermann wearing. Sergt. Cullen said he was stationed at Timaru in 1881. Kirby came into his room and pulled out a roll of notes, which he said were worth i'Boo. These, Kirby said, had been given him by a friend, who had gone away and the friend had said if he never came back Kirby was to keep them. Kirby later on showed him a gold watch, which he said a friend had given him. Subsequently said he had bought a house worth '£'650. Serqfc.-Major Ramsay, of Wellington, said he was stationed at Timaru in 1881. Saw Kirby displaying a gold watch, which accused said had been given him by his mother along with 500 soys. Accused was remanded until Friday. The charge against Wm. George Bassett for being an accessory after the fact was also remanded until Friday.