SLAIN MAN'S GOLD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 500, 1 November 1928, Page 1

SLAIN MAN'S GOLD

MINERS COMPARE SAMPLES DUNEDIN EXPERTS’ EVIDENCE Press Association DUNEDIN, To-day. The Ivyeburn murder trial was resumed this morning. Moses Brown, a gold miner, stated he had been mining for 48 years in various parts and had been engaged as an expert in connection with prospecting and dredging. On July 23, at the request of the police, witness went to Shun’s place and supervised the washing up of his claim. "Witness examined the samples handed to him in Court by the Crown Prosecutor, and' stated they were taken from Shun’s claim. “In all my experience,” added the witness in reply to a question, “I have never come across gold of the same rusty oxidised appearance except in this place.” Witness further said he was familiar with gold in all parts of the district, and gold of the kind produced was obtained in no other claim but Shut’s. His Honour asked what gold wit- |

ness was examining, the Crown Pro- [ secutor stating he was comparing the j gold sold to the bank with three samples taken from Shun’s claim. Witness said there was no difference between the gold. Mr. A. C. Hanlon a&ked why witness said before the magistrate that, not having seen the fourth sample come out of the box, it was impossible for him to say it was identical with the other three samples. Witness replied, “I am so absolutely certain that the samples are identical, that I don’t see I could make that mistake.” Witness added that what occurred was that he was asked if he could swear that the gold came from the claim, and said he couldn’t, because to swear to that he would have to see it come out. Isaac John Parfit, a miner, said the gold sold to the bank and the gold obtained from Shun’s claim were practically the same in colour. Blowings from the gold from Shun’s claim and blowings returned by the bank were somewhat alike. Charles Thomas Hore, a miner, said he washed up Hardie’s claim and from what he saw it would be impossible to get more than two pennyweights out of the workings. He tried several prospects and got one and a-half grains to the cubic yard.