TE AWAITE MURDER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1375, 9 February 1905, Page 2

TE AWAITE MURDER.

j(Per Press Association..) Wellington, yesterday. At the murder trial, Dr Palmer, who gave evidence concerning the wounds on Collinson’s body, said it would have been impossible for suah wounds to be caused by a bullet from a Snider carbine.

William Tisdall, gunsmith, said numbers of different rifles took the same calibre of cartridges. It would be a most injudicious thing to fire a ’303 cartridge from a rifle chambered to carry -300. It might be done without aooident a thousand times, or the rifle might “ go off” the first time. The bullet in a ’303 cartridge was slightly larger in diameter than in ’3OO, but was 6 grains lighter. The effective range of aSS Winchester rifle such as that produced would be 700 or 800 yards, aud its carrying range at least 2000 yards. He believed that a .303 bullet fired from this rifle would kill at a distance of 1000 yards. The wound described by Dr Palmer could, he believed, have been caused by a .300, .303, or .3240 bullet. The majority of stag shooters used .303 cartridge. Grenville (recalled) stated that there would be nothing to intercept sight in oase of a person firing from almost any point along the ridge above Cole’s Creek at any object near the position on which Collinson’s body was found. I The hearing stands adjonrned until to- I morrow. I