The Wain case.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 119, 26 April 1883, Page 2

The Wai n case.

(BY TELRGUA.PH.) (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, April 25. The following were the principal portions ot the evidence given by Job the brother of the deceased :— Witness stated that the only occasion on which he saw his father kick the deceased was when Mr Ogg brought him home frtn the Caled mian Grounds. The deceased was only locked up m the Oaledonian Grounds between the 20th January and the following Monday week. Witness had no recollection of his mother beating the deceased when he was washing his trousers m the backyard. He never saw his mother b^at his brother except with a light switch sometimes. His brother was beaten with the switch two or thr-e times a week. He was not beaten m any other way to witness's knowledge. Deceased's hinds htjd been tied behind his back — not very often, sometimes when his parents went out ; this was because he misbehaved himself. Mr Wain used to tie them with a piece of rag. Father whipped him two or three times with a strap for saying he got nothing to eat. John Coom (a new witness) stated — The first time I saw the decased he was m a room m the grand stand. He stood thera while I cut a bag of grass. When I left there be was standing m the «ame position as I had seen him all the time. He looked very dirty and very ragged. About three weeks or a month afterwards I saw him m a room m the grand-stand, standing alongside a willow. . This was between 6 and 7 o'clock m the morning. I was selling fish, and the boy ask-d me to give him a fish I stopped the ho'-se, and hung a barracouta on a spike on the top of the gate. Once or twice before 1 had put fish there for the accused. When I got close to the gate I asked the boy what he was doing there ? He said that was the third day he had been there. After I had got into my cart I saw the boy on the step of the door" with the fish m his hands. He put the fish to his month, and took a bite out of the (nackofit. It was a raw fish I had just got ov*t of the boat. T called hi<n a dirty little devil, and drove away. I Cross«examined — The boy could not rea^.h the lish from the window. If he helped himself to it, he must have gone i through the doorway.