Ongaroto Murder Trial

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1921, Page 1

Ongaroto Murder Trial

YESTERDAY’S PROCEEDINGS. X.EAV WITNESSES CAT.LED. I HY TKLKGKAPII— PER PIIESS ASSOCIATION! HAMILTON, August 3. Campbell Hamilton gave evidence that he discovered n dead duck and a trail of blood the next- day. To Kahn was told by the police to take the lead, hut lie did not stop when lie o ame to the blood stains. A constable pulled him up and asked him if he knew what the blood .stains were, but he replied that lie didn’t know. Prisoner afterwards remarked to witness in Maori that if it had not lveen for the blood stains the police would not have known that something unusual had occurred. Some days later witness asked prisoner if he had changed a £-5 note at Moka.i. He replied: “No. Two Co notes. T cashed my own money.” John Clarke accountant of the Timber Coy. said that on Good Friday he put, two C-5 notes in Elliott’s pay envelope. He also paid To Kalni £9 11s including one £-5 note Frederick Young (a new witness) guard at Taupo Railway said he saw Brady, the foreman 'deliver the pay envelope to Elliott, and had on several occasions, seen n brown leather wallet in Elliott’s possession, similar to the one produced in Court. Three other new witnesses, members of Elliott’s gang, said Elliott finished work at 2.20 on Faster Saturday and did not change money for them during the day. One had seen Elliott with a wallet similar to that produced but had never seen To Kalin with one. The spot where the gang worked was lonely and Elliott was not likely to ha ve done any business with anybody but tlio gang, as there Avore no other people in the vicinity.