"MAN'S INHUMANITY."

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 401, 17 October 1884, Page 2

"MAN'S INHUMANITY."

MR CROSLAND IN EXCITATION; . Ml- Crosland lias sent a long semi;; 5 private letter covering the subjoined statement. He holds the original, lie says, in case h,q should want it for his lawyers. How Mr Crosland can explain away tho sworn statement of his ; son Thomas Shaw Crosland afc the inauest, which we reprint, is more' than fro can understand : — " I am the son or Shaw-Crosland/andlire afc Oteramika. I was out on the terracess near Spur Head Bush about dinner time on Sundajr [meaning the sth October.] I was going 'to Gore on horseback with my father, and came upon the body the jury has just seen- It was amongst some tus3ocjks lying'; on its side. Did not touch it, nor did"- ihv father, who went on to Gore, while I returned' to. Oleramika with two men whose names I* do not know, and who were present at the finding of the body, but who took no steps W giro an alarm. Do not think my father knew' anything regarltog the man. We did noVeefc ; off our horses. There was an opened t»wa<>-' lying by the body, its contents having beea' G.lo,shes and blankets." ■ '• ' : ; Asto.Mr C.'s implied tWt about iesal proceedings we oaa just refer him ' to the above dop&sition. ...