TELEGRAMS

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 160, 13 April 1872, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

Grcvillk Si Co.’s; (Reuter's; Agents) EXPRESS. - ■ ■ SUPREME COURT. CYRUS HALEY’S TRIAL. THE DAY’S PROCEEDINGS. THE PRISONER’S-ADDRESS TO THE JURY. DAMAGING ADMISSIONS MADE. VERDICT OF GUILTY FOR SHOOTING WITH INTENT. PRI ONER CONFESSED TO OTHER CRIMES, AND IS SENTENCED TO PENAL SERVITUDE FOR LIFE ON THREE DIFFERENT CHARGES.

Auckland, 9 p.m. The trial of Cyrus Hale}' on a charge of shooting with intent to murder was resumed in the Supreme Court this morning at the usual hour, the Court bein§ crowded. The prisoner addressed the jury for an hour and a quarter. The expressions made use of to the police.and to Russell when he saw prisoner in the police cells, he (prisoner) asserted must have been used by a man not in his senses. Itwas proved that he(Haley) was excited, so the inference wanted to be drawn was plain. He said the letter to the Cross was a hoax to terrify the people, because nothing' had taken phee in 1870, as stated in tlis letter. lie admitted that the revolver was his, and that he had bought it from Blunden.

Several admissions 'were made incidentally, which Brookfield noticed in reply. The Judge having summed up at great length, the jury retired, and returned into Court with a verdict of guilty upon three counts in the indictment charging the prisoner with intent to kill Thomas Henry Russell. The prisoner then pleaded guilty to sending the letter threatening to destroy property, also to setting fire to Russell’s hayricks, and to the kerosene store in Mechanics’ Bay. No sentence was passed on the prisoner for sending the threatening letter. The Court sentenced him to penal servitude for life on each of the three other charges.