SULLIVAN, THE MURDERER.
Sullivan*, the Maungatapu murderer, returned from Hokitika on Sunday, Murray, or Wilson, escaped conviction on the charge of Dobson’s murder, because the jury would uot credit the statement of the perjurer Sullivan. Mr Fox laid an information against Sullivan for the murder of Mr Dobson, but it was departed from on somo legal grounds. Sullivan was pert and “ cheeky ” while at Hokitika. On one occasion, it is said, while under examination, he pulled out his watch and said, “ It’s 1 o’clock, and lunch-time.” He was told it was not yet one, but he said, “ It is one by my watch,” aud declined to give further evidence L He was nice in his tastes, too, and refused to partake of colonial bottled porter for lunch, and ordered English porter, which, we are told, was givea him ! If all this is true, the villain is too well treated, and wants a sound lesson in short commons, hard work, and harder fare.—Nelson Colonist.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 455, 21 February 1867, Page 2
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163SULLIVAN, THE MURDERER. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 455, 21 February 1867, Page 2
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