THE WAIRONGOMAI TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1917, Page 6

THE WAIRONGOMAI TRAGEDY.

A YOUTH ON TfflAL. Gisborno, August :>,:". M U-'aipivo Hay to-da.y Erajik li'crtram Tnkster. alias I'd ward th'.ytor. aged 17! years, appear, d i>ofo>-. ■' Mr.' J''lorenee, iS.M.. to answer a charge il.at at Wain.iigoinai on .Inly 22nd !„. „;,( murder Ulie Anderson and Harvey ihvd. ley. Inkster entered the dock smiiiiig, .Tift remained cool and unconcerned oil the day. After the medical evidence showing that both men had been killed by gunshot wounds received at close ronsc, Michael Keogh gave evidence that he was a member of a bush parly -.vliic!) j also inclu.led both deceased and accuse.,! i On July IS Anderson told vviinc-s lie had I found in Clayton's tent a -.vaice which I lie had lost at tlie homestead. Ander- j sen asked accused where lu> trol las \ watch. Accused replied: "From Toe • l'okai." a shepherd on the station. A' - - dorsen said: ''Yon are mad: you took a quid from Joe Pokai's pocket. I'll get someone to fix you up." Accused made, no reply. The four of them worked, together for the rest of the week. Andersen and accused not speaking to each other. Andersen was on good terms with witness and Bradley. On Satin-. day, July 21, witness went to the home- ] stead. On Sunday. 22nd. lie met accused | coming to the homestead. Tn reply to i witness accused said he had had a quar- j rel. and that Andersen had sent him for i a paekhorse, as lie was getting out of it. He did not say what Anderson and •Bradley had quarreled about on Monday- I At 7.30 a.m. witness left for th? canir. ' accused following with the paekhorse. : hut; some distance behind. Witness i roaclK.. the camp abo>ut 1:2.4.") and found j Bradley lying face downwards in a. i ditch at the back of a chimney, and Andersen lying on the floor in a, corner of a tent adjoining the galTey, both ; be- | ing dead A Winchester rifle they had j in camp was lying at Anders.-it's sid. 1 , ' with his arm over the butt and the barrel pointing in the direction of Bradley's . body. Witness touched nothing, .but left immediately to report to the sta- i lion. About eight miles from camp hr, : met acon=ed riding a paekhorse. and told him what he had found. Witness rode the paekhorse to the station and accused fo'ioued half an hour later or, v. ''tne-s.' horse. There was no need fo:-: Andersen to send accused for a pack horse, as there were five horses in tho paddock near the camp. Inkster reserved his defence and was committed for trial at Cisborne oi. ; September 13. j