THE COLCHESTER MYSTERY.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 January 1901, Page 3

THE COLCHESTER MYSTERY.

(XEU 2RESS ASSOCIATION.) "\Vr.M.i>-f!'j-ox. Tin's I'm.v Sergeant Frost of the Colchester police, and Marsh, keeper of (he Town Hall, arrived yesterday for the purpose of identifying, if possible, the man Lillyrrhite. now in custody, on the theory that he is Blateh, the person charged with the Colchester murder. "Wlicn the case was called on in the Magistrate's' t.'oin'l to-dny. Frost said he had known BTa'tch well and seen him when lie was al C<dchester nearly every day. Accused resembled Blateh very much : Imi witness could not positively say if it was lilaleh. The more witness looked at him the more he was convinced he was the suspected man. Later on in examination he said ho could not recognise the voice as like Blateh's. He could not say Blateh was marked with small pox as accused was. Could not say positively it was Blateh ; but the more he still looked at liim [he more convinced he was. Marsh said he did not p.t first recognise accused, as Blalch ; bt't sines he had been iu court he had formed an opinion that he was. In cross-exami-nation he said Blateh had a place worn in his teeth from holding his pipe. He did not find the same peculiarity in accused. As neither of the witnesses had seen Blateh vith a beard, accused consented to be shaved.