The Reefton Murder.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3847, 29 April 1881, Page 2

The Reefton Murder.

(Pee Piiess Association.) Tiie following are the principal points of the evidence given st the adjourned inquest on Monday :—Albeft Bennett said that when the warrant-was taken out:; against Bell by McGahey, the latter said he would knock Bell's -k— — brains pat with a piece of iron if he said- anything to him. He said that lo Bell several times, and witness stepped between them and pushed McGahey back, telling McGahey he ought to know better. He was violent then. On the 15th, while on his way to Boatman's Creek, McGahey said to him, " If anybody asks you have you seen me, say you have not." It was after McGrahey spoke of the summons Mrs McGahey had taken out against him that he asked witness not to mention his whereabouts, tie thought his conduct strange. William Campbell said that when McGahey was telling him his troubles, he said, " Campbell, as sure as God is judge, I will shoot the pair of them." He told McGahey to clear out, and have nothing to do with them. He told. B?ll that McGahey would shoot him, . and mentioned what McGahey said to other people. Charles Lyon said that, in January last, wh6n talking to McGabey,, the latter said, "If I could think that Bell and my wife 1 were cohabiting, I would blow the pair of them to li——, if I should be hung for it." Witness said, " David, you mean to .say you have not seen the carryings on of these two this%hile back f" ■ He declared to his'Gcd that he had not, and said, "I can see it all now." . He also said when speaking of bein<» hauled, that he would, smile at them if they were putting; trie rope round his neck. Witness, in reply to the accused, said, I said to John Bell and Mrs McGahey on the day of the inquiry into the fire at McGahey's house, when they were both sitting- on a log together, that if they thought they could slop in peace and comfort they were mistaken, and if McGahey came back God help them. When McGahey was shoeing a horse for witness he waited some nails, and asked me to go into the house for them. I popped rather quickly into the kitchen, and as I did so McGahey's wife rose asit #ere off Bell's knee at a seat at tlie fire, Told McGahey this>on the day I went to fetch the things for the- police from Bell's place. Alexander H. Jftng, said .Mrs McGahey was excitsd oa Saturday morning when she came to Gallagher's and asked if I thought McGaney would waylay her on the road. I said she need not apprehend anything of the kind.