A ROMANTIC CASE.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 808, 24 January 1877, Page 3

A ROMANTIC CASE.

[By Telegraph.] (From a corresvondent of the Press. ) Dunedin, January 23. Boss, in concluding his examination yesterday, said he had good reason to believe that Bugler was implicated in the matter for which he had suffered —viz, the shortcomings iu his accounts at Park and Curie’s. In his letter to his father-in-law Bugler was referred to as “ the thirsty informer.” While iu Auckland he wrote the following letter to bis father-in-1 iw :—“October 11th, 1871. Thomua Robertson. Dear sir,—Au promised and in duty bound, I pen you a note to let you know that we are all well, although at present in grief and much sorrow, A weeping mother, wife, and sisters, are hard to behold, and a gloomy prospect before us hard to endure. I suffer the bitter pangs of remorse as a stranger in a strange land. I feel that I could die, but that the duty of husband, father, and son, lies on me, and with the help of God may 1 get work for bread, for my all was plucked Irom me for a fault of which I was not alone guilty. Nevertheless I had better die with ihe hope of salvation and freedom from the ‘ thirsty informer’s ’ grasp than the guilt of making such sufferings on one not guilty. All the money left me was a few pounds we got for the and half of that went as oassage money. I would have gone direct for America or Melbourne had I not promised you and Jeaunie not to leave New Zealand, and for her dear sake I tarry, as never one. clung closer to man than she does to me. 1 cannot get work, but we have a chance as man and wife on a farm 100 miles from here, so we have to leave to see it on Monday, You need not tell our whereabouts to any, as our names are better blotted out of Otago. If you wish to write to Jeannie, address Mrs D. Ross, Post office, Auckland, and I will find some way to send for it. Indeed how can we feel but sad. God knows that I was snared, and with this name upon my lips I protest that I suffer wrongs, as most truly I am not guilty of the grave charge against me ; but, alas ! in an evil hour one fatal step laid on my shoulders burdens and griefs, charges and scandals, not belonging to me, although I have had to bear them for the sake of those belonging to me. I have survived, no doubt, but paid an hundred-fold. Yes, paid in hard won money, tears, and sorrows ; but the God of Justice knows the true state of my wretched state, and I only can, and always will, pray that the truth may come to light. Thera are a few things I would like, to say, but meantime remain silent.—D. Rosa.” Plaintiff’s eldest son had threatened to make his father suffer for not giving him the Tomahawk property, on the promise of getting which he had come from America. Plaintiff’s examination lasted some hours’ yesterday and all to-day, during the greater part of which he has been subjected to a searching cross-examination by Mr Garrick. In the main his evidence cor- ; roborates the facts sketched by his counsel. He denies firmly that he ever authorised Ross to make a deed in his own favor, or that ha signed such. In 1871 he thought he was signing hia will, though he was rathec foggy about the signatures to certain documents shown him. The principal evidence | to-day was given by Harold, who witnessed ; the confirmatory deed. He swears positively 1 that when Robertson signed it, and he wit- • nessed it, it was in blank, The case, which excites considerable attention, is not likely | to conclude before Thursday.