IS IT TRUE ?

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 67, 1 September 1880, Page 2

IS IT TRUE ?

In another column we publish the statement of Miss Blyl h, one of the partie3 m the late tragedy, hut we must say, that, without boing at all fvejud ; oed agaiiut her," the story bears tie stamp of improbaoilitj', and is contradicted by facts. It will be remembe"ed that a written statement was found m the lady's handwriting, m which she declares her infatuation for Henderson, so that they hud bofi resolved to die. togctljer. How can that be reconciled with the story whore no ment-'on of the letter is made at all? Even suppss'ng the document bad been written by him, it could not have bet-n placed where it was found without/ her knowledge, as she alleges the taking nnrt action of the. poison were simultaneous by and on both ? We have no sympathy with the would-be murde-er and suicide, but we may say the account bears a flippant tone about such a dn«wi affa'r. There is an old story to Jche effidct tliat tho--e w'io" tell stories, &c, and to save herself from the ig- : o liny of a public trial.she was not likely to stick at the truth. We arc not cavilling at the extraoid-nacy del'cacy exhibited m excusing her presence at the inquest ; still we hold the opinion that if so h'glily important a witueas required at the coronial inquiry, were a poor old woman, no such lenity shou'd have been shown.