THE PAPAKAIO CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8401, 16 April 1907, Page 5

THE PAPAKAIO CASE.

By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 15. Mr Hjorring, resuming his argument for Findlay in the Appeal Court, laid stress*on the fact that Millen and his son, who saw and spoke to the man with the bicycle on the night of the murder, could hot identify him as Findlay. The evidence was suspicious to some extent, but not enough to cdnvict. Mr Myers, for the Crown, reviewed all the evidence against Findlay categorically, and showed how he was connected with the articles stolen from the house, evidence, he contended, ample enough to justify any jury in convicting. Mr Myers pointed, out that Findlay gave two reasons for his presence in the neighbourhood, neither of which was 'borne out by the facts, to those who did not know him. He gave out he was a runaway sailor to those who did, and that he had been with a runaway sailor. Counsel suggested the object, was to create a false identity, in order to shield himself after the robbery he contemplated. As to the theory that a revolver shot would have caused alarm, the house was standing alone, and prisoner could I have found out how many inmates I there were. Evidence of the finger prints as far as they went showed, that one of the prints corresponded in part with prisoner's, but they were too smudged for complete identification. Judgment was reserved.