WELLINGTON.
This day.
Mr B. Welsh, farmer of Opake, met with a serious accident at Featherstone on Saturday night. As the train was leaving he attempted to pass from one carriage to another, when he fell and the train passed over him. Very little hopes are entertained of his recovery.
Later. Welsh, who was run over by the train, is dead.
Inciting: to Murder.
Henry Lewis, alias Heyman the hang» man, was to-day charged with unlawfully proposing to commit murder. The charge is brought on the information of a Maori named Pokane Hapueru, who is at present in gaol on remand, charged in connection with Lewis with burglary. The Maori will accuse Lewis of suggesting that they should rob the premises of a watchmaker in Cuba street, a Mr Campbell, and a chinaman. The Maori states that they were to visit the watchmakers shop during the day on some trifling pretext; the real object being to become acquainted with the premises. Lewis is stated to have arranged that the Maori should in the event of resistance, murder the shopkeeper. Lewis was remanded till Friday.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4965, 8 December 1884, Page 2
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184WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4965, 8 December 1884, Page 2
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