WESTPORT MURDER TRIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 182, 23 July 1908, Page 2

WESTPORT MURDER TRIAL.

THE PERJURY CHARGES. IMPORTANT EVIDENCE.

By Teiegraph.—Press Association. W'estpuri, Last Night. At the hearing of the charges ot per-; jury against, Conelly to-day, evidence was given by John West, lie was at Ayres' Hotel on Friday night on Htk May, At about 8 o'clock, and saw Conelly come in and purchase ii bottle of| beer and go out again. Conelly re-, turned liftecn minutes later and pulled* out a handkerchief all saturated with, blood, and made the remark, "He won'twant any more bottles:" Hugh Duncan, groomsman, recalled, said he noticed footprints at the back of the shed where Burke's body wasfound. A gate led Irom there into a paddock, which abutted on to a rigfet-of-way. There was a big mud hole at the gate.

Lily Pearce and Mi's. Thos. Pearce" detailed a convcr&iton lliey had with Conelly in the kitchen of a fish shopat about 8.20 p.m. that night. Conelly,' 'lmd a sheath knife attached to his belt, and remarked that he had 'laid ono out on the, wharf just now," and sni'J he had had to get four stitches put in a finger. Weber gave evidence corroborating that given by llalinen and Andersen as to the time they were at t'lie Iheatri',', The evidence of Ivy Pearce was also in a similar direction.

Murray denied that anyone else but Conelly and himself was' at Qualter's Motel, where it had been alleged by Conelly that he saw llalinen and Anderson. Murray said ln> watched Conelly take' liurke across the road from Ayres' Hotel, that Conelly and Conelly alone took liini, that 3io. lieard no whistle as Conelly left the' hotel, and saw no one meet him in the street, and that; Conelly returned in fifteen minutes,' pulling and blowing and covered with mud.

Hnakensen said lie was with Halineif, and Andersen all the evening, and none of them went to Qualter's Hotel. During the hearing of the case to-day Andersen was seized.with an epileptic fit and borne from the Court.

The ease was adjourned tiil to-mor rsir.