SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 June 1901, Page 4

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.

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TnrATtiT, This Day. In the Supreme Court, William Evans pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, and was sentenced to three years. The only other c.ise was that of Jeremiah M'Carthy charged with the manslaughter of Thos. Sullivan at Waihao in 1805. The case will occupy two days.

Charged with an Old Crime.

Timahtj, Juno 4.

The Supreme Court was occupied this afternoon with tho case of Jeremiah McCarthy, charged with manslaughter in 1895 by bealing with a stick an old man, apparently half-witted,. who called at his farm, breaking his leg and collarbone, then wheeling him away in a barrow and leaving him on the roadside, whore he died in a couple of' ditys. It is al'eged McCarthy then took the body in a trap further from his house, and left it again on the roadside. He was charged with murder in 1805 but the Grand Jury threw out the bill.

The principal witness at this trial is a new one, one of accused's daughters, a girl between 12 and 13 at the time of the occurrence. This girl, who is now 19, states that she saw her father beat the man with a stick, eatry him from the house and throw him over a wire fence, afterwards wheel him about a quarter of a mile to the public road. Deceased was seen on the roadside by two other young people next day. Accused sent one of hia children with food and tea for him that morning, and in the afternoon took him some himself. Next morning he shifted him and it is suggested that probably the man was dead at this time.

Cross-examination failed to shake the girl's story on any material point. The case will probably last all day to-morrow. Tho peculiarity about it is that the deceased was not identified oxcept by a few people wbo saw him a day or two before h" reached' McCarthy's, it is not known where he camo from and the name he gave one witness —Thomas Sullivan—is doubtful whother it is bis own name.