THE BARABA MURDER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2676, 23 June 1894, Page 3

THE BARABA MURDER.

Sydney, June 21. The case for the Crown in the Baraba murder trial has closed. Gumming, one of the prisoners, when called on for his defence, protested his innocence of the crime, and said that before God the following was the true state of the case: — Two men came to him and asked the loan of a horse, intimating that they intended to stick up a bank in the township, n n d in return they would let him stand in in dividing the spoil. They also took tho racehorse without his knowledge. He met the two men after he returned to Baraba by appointment, when they told him that they bad stuck up the bank and that the manager had been shot. They asked him to pilot them to the roughest country in the district, which he did. The men killed the horses, and he only removed the brands to screen himself. Lees, tho other prisoner, also made a statement. He said—“l have a knowledge qf one man’s death and 49 hQt want tq have a secqud life on my hands. I, therefore, declare Gumming to be entirely innocent. His statement is true. I was the man who borrowed the horse from him, and told him it was intended tq rob the bank, and would let him have a cut at the money. He w»S to phnt the money and send ray share to Sydney when the affair had blown over.” Gumming had not finished his statement when the telegraph office closed.