Mrs Nye’s Evidence.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 6 July 1909, Page 3

Mrs Nye’s Evidence.

The first witness called was Mrs Nye, wife of deceased, who was then suffering from the effects of the tragedy. On being sworn she stated that she remembered last Monday morning. Mr Nye woke me by gening up out pf bed. He did not say anything. I heard him strike a match. Heard a noise—it sounded like a huge smash in the dining-room. Got out of bed and called my husband. He did not answer and I went into the passage. I saw my tiusband lying in the dining-room. His head was towards me. I saw Hedley in the kitchen with a gun looking in .the drawer where we used to keep the cartridges. He saw me and ran after me Hedley’s father, always kept the cartridges there, but lately had removed them to his bedroom. Hedley saw me and then ran after me. I ran out of the front door and shut it after me. I ran to my step-daughter’s window and Hedley saw me. I hid behind a tree and screamed out to the children to hide or get away if they could. I called to Violet and Lionel. Did not go out of the gate. I hid behind a -fir tree till Hedley went back to the house. Then ,T' went down to Mr A. Symons’, house. I saw the gun in Hedley’s hands when he came after me. The gun was then produced and witness identified it. It was a sihgle-barrel brekch loader. Witness said the gun belonged to her husband. He had it since he was a boy. The cartridges were also his. Saw Hedley at * a.bout 7.30 p.m. on Sunday night. He went to bed about 7.30 p.m. There had 1 been no quarrel between Hedley and bis fether; Sunday was one of Hadley's good days, Hedley had made threats before. Hedley had -told me that he would kill his father because his mother said he could. That was about:two months ago. He . had <heen more Iquiet lately. At times he had been very »yiolent. J To 'Detective Quirker There 'Were in (the house on Sunday night, witness, and her husband who and the other

three inmates who slept upstairs. Heard the noise immediately after her husband left the room. From the time she heard the noise until she saw the accused in the kitchen it seemed only a few seconds. Could not account for the axe being in the kitchen. The axe was never kept in the kitchen. She was the last in the kitchen on the night of the murder. The cartridges were usually kept in a drawer in the kitchen until last Thursday. The place were Hedley was searching was the place where the cartridges were usually kept.'