Seddon v. Taylor.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 297, 20 December 1904, Page 2

Seddon v. Taylor.

CONTINUATION OF THE ACTIOS FOB SLANDER. I EVIDENCE FOR DEFENCE. M (Per Press Association.) j| CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. IP. '•£ The hearing of the slander case was resumed thli morning. . < t >j J. G, Shera, further crosa-exomlft-^j- , t'd, denied that the main body rv id t-irod at a walking pace. WitMM 11 said" he hail claimed £IOO from tho »>l Government and railway fare to 1 Uotorua, and had had correspond- ~ » i enoe with the Government nggardiiy "a Ins transfer to the militia from thQ •vH contingent, which was not granted, U though he was given a commission ' in. the volunteers without examlnar ■.« lion. ' *g| Re-examined, witness trtfl the f? members of the scouts wbo he/t given vvidence were proiknbly witii the 4 support*, Lieutenant Dillon havingt i told men with tired horses to retire. <}/j l)r. George Kdwarci G-ajbdtee, goon-Captain in the SeveoUt Cb&.'«f .mgunt, stated he had been attach# *8 ed to the main body during to? 1 Rlesbok Spruit engagement. He the retirement. The supports wew't going- toward tho Spruit at a bant gallop, or a canter at any rate. Jl One ridge was lined by some ntaa, B but ho remembered no other, halts. 1| At the nidge some men dismounted*? p jnd stayed behind. That w*ai£» .Jji only halt, and tho body with Clip ifH tain Seddon gullopod to the spruit. Sjl Sergeant-Major Lockett, who VRl'-a out in South Africa with the Ft rat and Seventh Coatinjgenrts, Mil ? J under Captain Seddon in U» 'UBI - 1 tor, deposed that on Wgetartfltrijiil X- 3 i lilesbok Spruit attafr he was »urr jjj Captain Seddon galloped awayi s There was a stampede. Witness 1 considered .tie men were out of poo- .-i| trol as they galloped to tho spruits ij] Lockett stated that he remumhbrefl a man nanied Long coming in wltli % j a message from Lieutenant DiUtf "y asking ior support as he had ffif, '1 ammunition. Captain Seddon toMNt 1 fxing to tell Dillon to get out the J way as he had gone in. Long IIH asked for a change of horse*, as '"■ qi his was about done. He did not,® set the change. A few minutes tti "ia tor that the order to retire was giv- "wl en. When the retreat stak*ted tha Wk roar-gwand wa« composed of a troop M of sixteen men under • Lieutenant • m I* orsyth. Then the scoutd appeared :8M tWtii tho Doers in close pursuit, 'fl shots begun to fall amongst Um.VJh rear-guard". The men began to move ; ]9 laster, and the rear-guard awl ♦VtH main body became mixed up. HeSrl toJd his troop to wait and cover retreat of the scouts. All the iwSe-™ ot the men had gone. A few glere stayed behind. He war notSll oidered to take up a position: aid so on his own responaibilitmifl Tho retirement of the main body was.* practically a stampede. -"ill Edward G. Barker, William Richard Long, and Frederick Mpi

son gave evidenco general to COfTO* borative of Lockett's, to the eOetitkl that there had been no to cover the Retreat of the acotit»-19 that the main body had ffatlnmrfil away; that the Utafcer 0 ? 1t0«39 Wgaged was within 100, anil twH estimates of 300 and mofe> were «@H aggerations. Harry Corlett, wmiSSB Oainpjbell, Stanley Smith, nh. f [sM Leonid Cloako aSSS (-•eorge Darling gave somewhat ftimuH iar evidence. . Frederick Walter Crespdn, wjw ImPB aotod as sectary to Colonel iWftfl U-r, staitod that he had evl , 9 ,f l " c , e ,. at m in<Wiry held into the* "M.Jok «vga«o m( .n.t. Quintal, so", Gannon, and Saxby pixwnt. Captain Sedflon eameintrtlß tan. and Colonel formed him that he was about bS9 hold an inquiry, ■ and would waaiH -•«><"« of Seddon's men. 3e %5* ""'J™ at the limuKS Witness hod had Q cop.. <*<#>oe.fout had lost it. T| Tlie evidence of Janxw inj.» "aM the cLTC tIW d e §|||