TE AWAITE TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7719, 23 January 1905, Page 2

TE AWAITE TRAGEDY.

ELUS' TRIM. COWBBteI Committed For Trill. (l"cr Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 31. On i li<> resumption of tho Collltitiiiii minder caw to-day, John HBBWfnrrl, || I'hephelM, deposed _t*St tV 'i. i. «*.|» uud*-mjH.ir*iirUcle» waro tukm from fain „harc at Stony Creek hi at inn, adjoining He Aw»lU*. about the end of January last. .lohn (Irani, ' overt* vr at Wafpawa out Mat ion at Tc Await*, said hi' saw through a telescope the aec; sed man McKcnzie (or Ellis) «a the bunk of the To Awaitc Hlvcr, in 111-.. first «ifk In February, IiKH. Accused wn* carrying o rl(li». (hi the int>i'iiiii'( of Collinson's death he. noticed where a camp Arc hid hot* lit alongside a sheep or cattle track, and niffnii of someone having slept there. There was a small footprint nlioiit tiii yards away oa tfrj opposite side of Hie stream from where the (In- wuk. Hetwoen the time curly In February when, he saw (fee accused and tho time of Collinson's death ho Haw no stranger about the run. It wqh easy for a man to rump out there without being awn, Albert Walters, a bush worker employed by Collinson, deposed to cump conversation)! with accused Concerning thu Killing of sheep and deer. He also Ha Id accused used to wear fairly small boots, perhaps siss seven.

Evidence wok given by McDonough, a bushuuui employed at Collinson's camp, that the accused had belli aeon in the locality )on the morning of the day Collinson was shot, and that he won carrying a rlflo and wearing a khaki coloured coat. A number of witnesses were called to identify articles found on accused when arnwtcd, and some of them were recognised a* having boon stolen from bush camp* la the Howke's Hay district during the months* of August, September, and October of last year.

Deted. ive llroburg deposed to (ho circumstances of EUis' arrest, and said that before being aeimd he brought his rifle from a Twrpendteular to a horizontal position. Itiln accused denied. When asked kin name Ilrobcrg said the prisoner roI plied: "You will lind that out noon enough," Prisoner admitted having stolen certain articles from Hirst's fcouaa at, Whakarara. lie subonquenUy initied to Broberg that be was MeI Ken/.ie, alias Ellis, tftatfng that he bad as much right to one name aa to another. On being, then charged with Colllnson's murder, he replied : "I know a" about that. ,'You know who I was all right. The papers printed my photograph." Later on he stated to the detective: "I read the papers, but it is against human nature for a man to give himself up voluntarily when he knows there U a lot of evidence against him."

At the close of the Croijjm -case the prisoner, who reserved Bis dofence, was consult ted for trial to the next criminal sittings.