WELLINGTON CRIMINAL SITTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 4 July 1882, Page 2

WELLINGTON CRIMINAL SITTING.

THE DREYBRTOK CASH, (From the N.Z.liniM.) ÜBOINY.' . I'elauuiAparonawasoharged.with having on the 19th of May last; broken iuto the dwelling-houso of 0.. H.Oaborae, of Dreyerton, and earned away therefrom £1 audtwo Bixponces ol money, one repeating revolver, and half a pound of tobaoco," :and one botUe^- y of "gin. Pruoner.pleaded " not; guilty," tf was.uriaefeaded. jMr Daviß was sworn f interpreter, 0. H. Osborne, hotelfceapsr, deposed on the night in queasjen he hid secured MHE the .doors and windows of his hotel WaJB Dreyerton.. In the morning <he um that somebody had boon in the front rlflf. His' attention was firslattracted to a puce of candle which had been leffcon the table, and fromiwhieh tallow bad -evidently bsen scattered abont, He west toithe bar, where he fonnd that thinjs had beenspulled about, The articles named weto mussing. _ The reason the money had not been pat with hit other money was that sit was-trust money. The articles produced ware-identical with these whioh were missing/ ■'■■'■' ;010 Christiansen, at Mas'tertoni' said he since May last, v,He.came tfierp one tytyWgm in that month and again on-the he came and had tea. He saw hiffl'igaitt ; on the list;' and'stayed until, he wis ar- : rested,:' Piirjjjfg,tiu't.tinie he saw the.wol- '■■ jer produeed'in'the prisoner's bedroom. On ' ' his wife gave him (witness) a . •. bad got from :pjjl«Siier,. tee'prisoner; Jtskfed anumbsr of irrelevant, an'd, in said he was at witrie'ss' honte'enWeaiiepy and not on : Thursday. '-'■ .'■■'••>"...' Aletba Christiansen, '.wife'.'of the former witness,: to their house, but was.'not very, certain about I the; day-or date, buf believed it was a Thursday; s He went away .that evening and came baqk on the Saturday; He had amc.il sovereign, out of whioh aha took fe-Kis'oher stayed till ths MowugWeiinMyV • • • , J.Beigekt to arresting the 'prisonerjatChristiansen's boarding nouso on the'24th May,"sHethen mado a statement ia . to him that he had nought the revolver on the 23rd from a tall Shan; with a red beard, who had come into horse. He.sald he gave 60s for tlje;ayplver. and:sold.:.it.againlon the dayonr.whichhe .was. arrested;- ■,Wiineßs.theii,searcned the •!»'W' , »W- : . I

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