Alleged Threat

NZ Truth, Issue 1240, 5 September 1929, Page 2

Alleged Threat

•,i •-,•.■••■-•■. ... . :•. ■ ' y ' think It belonged ..to the household cutlery. Similar evidence was given by James Gallott, who thought they arrived at the house about 6;4j5. ! SehsationaJ evidence was tendered by Marg&ret Lang'ton, Cole's late landlady.. : According, to her story, at about 6.25 p.m. that evening, she heard a noise neata her husband's loaded vegetable cart which was m a lane alongside the. house. V --.■ Going outside, with Her husband, he struck, a light and exclaimed to. a man standing by the cart with a bag of potatoes on his shoulder; "It is ypu, Caffery."'; . .'..A- '■ « .Ay; ) y She told the man to put the/ potatoes back or she would have him arrested, . whereupon he r»» A plied: "I don't want your potatoes.' A I .want 'Cock' Cole. I'm going .to kill him to-night." ; Mrs. Langtpn alleged that she replied: "ybu'li do no killing here, because he's not here to kill," to which, so she said, Caff cry replied: "Don't tell me' that. I' know he sleeps m that back room of yours." -/.'I Mrs. Langton, allegedly informed Caffery that. Cole had gone to live with Leavy and he went off muttering; ; She; alleged th.at Caffery twice said m her hearing that he was going to kill Cole, but she would not like to speak to his sobriety or otherwise. A Cross-examined by Mr. Dickson, Mrs. Langton "was certain the Interview occuvced on a Friday night, but could not give the exact dateV On the Satur- ,