BUSINESS NOTICES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3865, 1 November 1928, Page 2

BUSINESS NOTICES

D. Ball, hairdresser and tobacconist, wishes to announce that as from November Ist he will sell for cash only, and at reduced prices.

along, groaning and saying he was ‘ ' dying. Shun said the man who was there had shot him and asked Pee to go to the hotel for a doctor but the latter was frightened. Shun told him not to be\frigh toned, as thef man Njad broken up the gun and thrownVit into the tuss.*cks. Pee slept tile night in f,he tussocks and reached the hotel next morning. Some days later, Poe identified Hardie at Dunedin as the man who had called at the hut. Pee’s evidence was direct prima facie evidence against Hardie. His evidence did not stand alone and was corroborated by other evidence. Hardie said he was in his own hut at three o’clock on the afternoon of the 17th but that statement was contradicted by Pee and another man, who said he saw Hardie near 'Shun's place on the morning of the murder. That was exceptionally important. Another contradiction was found in Hardie’s statement, when in his wallet were found certain photos corresponding with some Pee sad he had displayed in the hut. Hardie said he had received no gold from a 'Chinaman but had got gold out of his own claim. Hardie did not have a miner’s right and experts said the gold taken into Naseby by Hardie must have come out of Slum’s claim, as gold was different in colour and quality from the gold in "other parts of the district. Mi-. Adams occupied three hours in laying before the Court and jury the facts he intends to bring forward in the evidence of the thirty witnesses to be called for the Crown. At the conclusion of Mr. Adams’s address, evidence was given by two of the witnesses, after which the Court adjourned till to-morrow morning. The jury was accommodated for the night under a police guard at an hotel close to the Court. It is expected that the ease will occupy four days. Dunedin, Yesterday. The Kyeburn murder trial was resumed this morning, when Sue Pee, an old Chinaman who worked with the murdered man, and gave the first news of the tragedy, gave evidence, which had to be taken" through an interpreter. Witness remembered a man arriving at Shum’s hut on a Tuesday. This man showed him four [pictures of the Exhibition and another of a man with a big mouth. This man asked for Shum’s gun and cartridges and they went towards Shum’s claim. Witness was proceeding tp tfitL what Slium said, when he found him, Shot, but Mr. Hanlon raised a point that such was not admissible except as a dying declaration which he argued it wasn’t. The Judge said it was not desirable to argue this before the jury and counsel retired with him. On the Court resuming Sue Pee said Shum cried out to him : “I am dying; that man shot me.” Sue Pee asked: “Which man?” Shum replied: “Man we gave dinner to. He demanded £IOO and I gave him all my. gold. He shot me several times. That man has no heart.” Sue Pee was asked by this Crown" Prosecutor: “Who was the man who came to the hut?” The Interpreter: “He says that the man is here.” Witness then pointed to accused. Witness said on the Friday following Shum’s death witness was placed before a row of seventeen men at the police station. The Crown Prosecutor; “Was accused there?” The Interpreter: “He says, ‘lf he was not, then how could I have picked him out’?” Witness, to the amusement of the Court, then demonstrated the swaying of accused when in the line of men in the police yard. Cross-examined, Sue Pee said he had never seen where Shum kept his gold and had not been in his bedroom. Shum had told him that the gold wash ups amounted to a little over two ounces. Asked if they were good friends witness said if they were not he would not have been working for Shum.