The Great Barrier Murder.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2505, 21 January 1887, Page 2

The Great Barrier Murder.

•--v -.tjKi'fgi)Tftfis?^Sß ; obHiioH;" ■'■". >.. Tbe:srja|pf Qaffiey-and'Tenn-'ibr / the Grcat;Barrler murder was-rpmed I to-day, was'orbwded. ; Messrs Wiiiips'on and Gov,er> as before j ; conducted tM^ypsecution,.and \Meaart■ "\ O'Meagher, J%ksp,n.and Palmer.ap./ peared for Caflrty, and Mr. Napier for Ponn.' ; ;: ; V; ■ ■ In cross-exanjinaflon by M-fO'Mea- ; gher, Mrs Taylor'said; 4'er husband, did not fall,.but, wa» abf&to go in and . close .the "door against CaSroy, Penri : . followed Caffreyin,' Itwdsbefore the fourth shot was fired that she saw Penn with his arm roundher.husband's neck* Caffreythen, 1 THetfudgeiere said ife'jyas better. tbat-'Grace Graham, shoult" l6ays..,.tjie .'Court, is'he"observed , \her~exbtft6'gih* signals with Penn. --■ Mr O'Meager said he ohservcltho 'same,, .and the girl was therefore ordered from the Court-room. .. The witness continued: Sho Me'ved Caffrey had been outside loMng for her daughter, but she could not see him. Mr O'Meagher was proceeding to. ask the witness questions as to her statements before the Police Magistrate, when the Judge said if depositions were to be put in let them be put in at once. The depositions' were then put in, Shehad nothing to say aoout an attachment between Cnffreyand her daughter. They were friends, and there had. been some talk about their' being married, but she took no notice of it. Caffrey had been kind and, obliging to their family. When Caffrey came to her at the stockyard there was blood on th» revolver in his hand, as well as on hi» sleeve... In cross-examination; by the witness described :the" clothing: worn by Penn ,slien •he-;eame'>to' ; t)ie : ; house, and conjimed ,her'%t.ement : af! to the conversation;; during -the: half hour sho was with Penn before Caffrejr, came. He' : wa|.. talking 'aboot'the girls, and loading;the revolver.' %$).; saw no blood .on,him.- „._. '■"s''■'• \ ...Mrs Seymour;;;,-daughter, of .tne.:' muvderedma'n, ; dence, as' did &rak : Jane; Taylor, ! daughter, and Lincoln Taylor, son of '.the..deceased. .!,MM.„„Seympur j examined as.to..her r acquaintance -with. Caffrey;..SHe said-she had known.himi.i. akont six years, •; .She : was living then'' < with her father at Tryphena..' Caffrey ■ was then.-paying-, her attentions, and expressed.a wish tp-.marry her. She was.engaged to him, but.she broke off the engagement nearly three years ago, .and ihere.'.lias since' biietan'Q.,intimacy between, them. •'•She'was. ma'rrie'd to Mr Seyrao^twoyeare.agonext March,, •twelve, months' after her. engagement >■ with Caffrey was : brokjen off; ": She bad had nothingtb do w'ith Caffrey since ber engagement with;-Seymour. She was confined 1 in- May last year. She', stayed at Mrs Bailey's, and had been, just a week at home at the time of her' father's death.- ■ - •,.';.:/:;- t After the-mid-day adjournment Mrs' Seymour was by' Mr O'Meagher. She said' Her intiuiacy with Caffrey commenced about threo and a half years ago, and ended after about eighteen months. Caffrey had always been kind to her. She had no. tatoo mark on her arm, Shehad once had the initials "J,C." on' her arm ; she put them there herself;: they signified "Caffrey," and he had asked her to' do it. On re-examine ation by Mr Gover, the witness said that when she broke off her engagement with Caffrey he took."it,very badly. He said he would;;'bring either a ring or. a revolver, -He Baid "should not have any other--inan if she would not have him, 1 ' ■' .' , H - Auckland, January 20|| The evidence of twelve Vitnesm was heard to-day, and of Grace Graham, as taken; before the Police Magistrate, was read,.and Mr Williamson then announeed that the case for the prosecution had closed.