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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 705, 2 August 1869, Page 2

Teicker's Case. —We believe an agitation is being commenced in Rangifikei in reference to the case of Tricker. The peo pie there are determinated not to rest till Tricker is liberated on the ground of the alibi, and a prosecution instituted against the half-caste for perjury. We shall give ibis movement our heartiest spuport. — Wellington Independent, July 17. The Mtjkdeker of Me. BnouaHTON.— The Wanganui Herald of the 9th July, pays :—" The week before last, after the return of Col. Lyon from the Titokowaru expedition, Captain Hawes and a party of jhe Wairoa Ritles went up to Patahi and picked up a party of Maori rebels —men, women, and children—and amongst them Hone, brother to Wharematangi. This Hone boasts of having killed Broughton and Collins, and of having wounded Major M'Donnell at Putahi, in General Chute's campaign. Our gallant Captain Hawse went with Hone to look for some canoe paddles, and allowed him to cross the river and escape, Hone crying out from the opposite side that he would meet the Captain some other time at Oika (near to where Collins was murdered). Were the hands of Captain Hawes and his men tied that they did not shoot every man of these wretches, who at Muturoa killed and ate twenty-three of their comrades only a few months siDce ? " The same journal of a later date has the following:—"The man who is generally supposed, and reputes himself, to be the murderer of Mr Charles Broughton, has been recaptured, and i? now a prisoner in Patea. We gave an account, a few days ago, of this man's escape from the custody of Captain Hawse, when he ran away, and from the other Bides of the Whenuakura liver made sport pf and laughed at the Captain. The manner of his second capture w ;s as follows : On Tuesday night Thomas Adamson, who was seriously wounded on the East Coast, while scouting, about two months ago, w-js Btaying at the house of Mr Southby, on tljjs side of the Patea River. At this house the native who carries the mails between Wanganui and Patea was accustomed to put up, and it appears that the prisoner pa me to see the mailman. He remained there during the night, and the next morning Adamson placed a revolver to his head and n arched him a prisoner to Patea. Ho had on his person a gold watch and about 80 sovereigns. During the night he was very communicative arid confident, and disclosed several things of importance. He stated that five men ambuscaded themselves and killed a settler named il Sandy" M'Culloch, who was mjssed in the month of October last, an. described how it was' done. M'Culloch •jyaa riding over a bridge on the other side of Tatea, near Kakaramea, and when he gqt on to the'bridge a volley was ilred anc he fell. His horse galloped off, but a Tyhicti was with him was shot. His bod; Tjraa thrown into the creek. In order U test the truth of this story, Adamson went jc, the place dcacribed, and there found t)u Skeleton, and brought the skull into Patea Yfpbt is to be done with the murderer ? '