NELSON.
Yesterday. At'the Supreme Court the murder case W atill progressing. Mrs Gramatica was
examined at great length. She stated that her evidence at the inquest on the body of Denis Quinlan was incorrect. She alleges she feared to tell the whole facts, but claims to have made a clean breast of it 'now,- She says that the prisoner Davidson stabbed Quinlan in thf breast; that she bandaged it, and went to \ bed in a s&te of intoxication, sleeping rt^ough all after occurrences till .next ttterningr. She saw a heap in the sitting room* covered with blankets, from which a body projected. On. her asking the prisoner for. Quinlan, he said he bad takeg^ his heart's blood; that she was forced to" remain in her;bedroom all next d*y, and" that at night she had heard Davidson drag Quintan's body out of the house. A man ' named Carl»n, seaman on board the Hawea, was charged with wounding Mr Ross, the second mate of that vessel with a dog-hook, and remanded till Thursday for the return of steamer.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4511, 20 June 1883, Page 2
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176NELSON. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4511, 20 June 1883, Page 2
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