THE MURDERER WINIATA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2568, 30 June 1882, Page 3

THE MURDERER WINIATA.

rBBB'JB ASSOCIATION MIS3SAM. I AUCKLAND, Juno 29. This morning 700 people assembled to see Winiata conducted from the police coll to the Court-house. The prisoner marched across the road between Detective Brennan and Constable McGill, and seemed utterly oblivious of the interest hia presence occasioned. Since his arrival hero he has eaten his food heartily, and chatted freely with those whom he came into contact with. He states that the night previous to the arrest ho dreamed he was travelling in a railway train, attired from head to foot in white garments. On waking he felt very sad regarding the dream as a presentiment of danger, and related it to his friends. They, however, laughed at his fears. Mr E. T, Duffaur, solicitor, has undertaken hia defence. Winiata had £2O in the Auckland Savings Bank before Packer’s murder, did not draw before the commission of the deed. It is supposed that it will be available for his defence. His sister is the wife of Paiwhenua, the Native, who when James Mackay visited Kati on his mission to demand the mur- / dertn-s of Sullivan, saved that gentleman’s I life, when he was attacked by Buru To Ngahi in his tent. Barlow, Winiata’s captor, is in town to-day, and the object of general attraction. Ho is over six feat high and nearly nineteen stone weight, and of Herculean strength. He denies drugging or chloroforming Winiata, who had a five-barrelled revolver across his breast while sleeping, which Barlow secured. Mrs Barlow rendered great service in the capture. Barlow has had to abandon his home, horses, cattle, and 200 pigs, his property in the country, so that he loses a respectable amount in that way.