THE MURDERER WINIATA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 256, 29 June 1882, Page 3

THE MURDERER WINIATA.

IPBBB3 ASSOCIATION TAIItaKAM.! AD'cKLASU, June 28. Winiata arrived by trLi n 50 night. There was a great crowd at the station, and some alight hooting. The police got a carriage and drove off rapidly with the p-Loaer, who was manacled. Ho was charged is the usual way at the police station. The handcuffs wore removed, and ho was placed in a separata cell. Barlow came down by the. train and went to the Maori settlement at hfangarei. The story of drugging and ohloroformirg turns out a fabrication. Barlow nev.r bad time to inform Constable Gillies that he was coming, as Winiata was leaving Barlo v ’s eettlemeat next day, and he had either in capture him. at once or loso his chance. Qillies had been watching at the rendezvous arranged for a week. No or.o know anything, bat Sergeant McGoverir, Gillies and Barlow, so that if the plan failed it might bo again attempted. The material witnesses are all handy, but two persons who gave evidence at the inquest on Packer have since died. There is some suspicion of Winiala’s being implicated in another murder previous to Packer’s. Winiata was sentenced to six .months’ imprisonment for stealing a saddle

from Collins, of Onehunga. The evidence on which he was convicted wa* given by another Maori. Shortly after the expiration of his sentence this Native disappeared, and has never been heard of since. Winiata gave out that he died at Mangerei, but recent enquiries reveal the fact that no one else knows anything about his death.