THE MURDER CASE. PAYET COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 364, 1 May 1889, Page 4

THE MURDER CASE. PAYET COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

Auckland, April 27. The charge against Louis Payeb for the murder of the woman Mary Ann Wilson was continued yesterday. The following is the finish of the evidence : — !M ichael Foley, licensee of the Avondale Hotel at Avondale, deposed to knowing the i accused and the woman Wilson. He only saw them once. He saw them on the Wednesday before the alleged assault, i.e., 3rd instant. They were at his hotel between 10 and 11 o'clock, where they had a couple of glasses of beer each. The woman left the hotel and the j accused a little before her. He returned and asked witness if he had seen his wife. Witness replied that he had not. Pii&oner searched tor her, but could not find her. Accused gave witness a parcel to take charge of. This parcel he handed over to Detective Hughes. He saw the prisoner cutting tobacco in the bar with a clasj) knife. It was a very long kuife with a long blade. Constable Kenny, stationed at Auckland, deposed to knowing the accused and the accused woman. He remembeied being on duty at the comer oi Pitt and Greystreets about 20 minutes to 12 on the night of the Bth inst. He heard a woman's voice screaming down Grey-street He went down to see what was up, and he saw the deceased sitting on the foocpath and the prisoner trying to get her along. Witness asked what was the matter. Piisoner replied that he was trying to get Maiy Ann home, as she was living as his wife with him at Waikomiti. He said she had a drop of drink in her and wanted bo stay in to.vn. Payet was quite sober, but the deceased was rather under the influence of liquor, but was able to walk. Witness told her that if she did not get up out of that ho would take her to the lockup. She replied, *' I do not care ivhether you do or not ; yon can lock me up if you like." Prisoner said, "Oh, no; do not lock her up ; she is able to walk home with me." She said, "He is very nice before you : bub when he gets me home he knocks me about and does all sorts of things, and he will do for me one ot these da^s. " Witness asked the woman why he used her in such a manner and she said she did not know. Prisoner said, " Oh, I never knock her about ; she is a very good woman." She replied, "You are a coward and scoundrel." She shortly afterwards got up and walked away. William Kelly, mounted constable stationed in Auckland, deposed to arresting the prisoner at the Hospital on the 6th instant about a quarter past four, on a charge of stabbing Mary Ann WiLson. When the charge was read to him the prisoner said, "laid nob doit." He identified the clothes produced as being those of the prisoner. Constable Kenny was recalled, and at the request of Mr Shortland the Bench asked him if he saw the deceased after death. Witness replied that he had not. Counsel said that he could not therefore identify her with the woman he saw on the nighb in Grey-street. Charles Brown, chief detective stationed ab Auckland, deposed to finding bloodstains on the prisoner's clothes, giving the same evidence as adduced ab the inque e t. Edward Hughes, detective stationed ab Auckland, gave similar evidence to that given by him ab the inquest. Inspector Broham put in the dying depositions of the woman Wilson taken at the Hospital and already published in our columns, with this closing the case. Prisoner reserved his defence beyond saying that he was innocent of the chuigc. He was committed to take his trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. ■— — — — — ■— — — —„ „ i i ■ Bloodgood : "Are you engaged yet, Furlow?" Furlow : "No: and" I don't know as I want to be. There are nine pretty girls who have promised to be sisters to me, and I've about come to the conclusion that universal brotherhood is the highest condition of the race." It is well for young married couples on wedding tours to observe certain rules, and one good one is for the husband to remain seated in a crowded car while his bride hangs on to the etrap. Peoplo will imagine then fchut they have been married a long, long time.