THE MURDER CASE.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 51, 8 October 1887, Page 2

THE MURDER CASE.

A VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER. CttaisrcauJiCH, last night,

The inquest on the unfortunate man Johansen, who was stabbed on Monday night, was held at Little Biver on Wednesday. The inquiry lasted all day, but there was little new brought out. Jacobsen denied having any knowledge of Johansen’s death, but blood had been found on the former's trousers and hands, and a knife picked up on the road near the hotel was identified as his. Hyman said that as Jacobsen, Johansen, and himself were walking from the hotel, after a quarrel about a glass Jacobsen had broken, he heard Johansen cry ait, saw him turn back and lay down on the verandah, and " make a noise from his chest like a beast when it is struck." Witness, however, took little notice of it, and was walking on, when Jacobsen, who had stopped behind, caught up to him again, and said that he had left the deceased talking to some Englishmen. The jury took about a quarter of an hour to consider the evidence, and the foreman then returned with a verdict of wilful murder against Jacobsen, The prisoner is evidently much affected—perhaps more from fear than sorrow—but he tries to keep up a dogged and resolute appearance.