THE AUCKLAND MYSTERY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2762, 30 November 1887, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND MYSTERY.

Auckland, November 29. At tho Police Court this morning, before Mr Badderly, R.M., Samuel Clegg was charged with manslaughter, by " killing.and slaying one Arthur Dewson," The accused, who seemed quite composed, and not at all overcome by the serious charge, pleaded Not Guilty. The case was remanded until Wednesday, pending an inquest on the body of Dewson. The inquest was commenced this afternoon before DrPliilsoii, District Coroner, at Gleeson's Hotel. The body of the deceased man had been removed from the police cells, where he died, to the morgue, and it having been viewed by the jury, a post mortem examination was made by Drs Erson and Hooper, when it was found that death had resulted from fracture of the skull the inner table of which has been driven in upon the brain. There was a large clot of extravasated blood on the brain, and it was the pressure of this blood that caused death. Dewson, when taken into custody oil the morning of his death, gave a number of different versions as to the cause of the wound on his head, but Mrs Dewson, when afterwards interrogated said that in the quarrel which exisued between deceased and Clegg, the latter struck her husband with the buckle of a belt. Dr Erson, in his evidence at the inquest, said the wound was not such a one as would be caused in this way, and was more likely to have resulted from a blow with a sharp instrument applied with great force, Constable Addison, who assisted DetectiveHuglies to arrest the deceased on Saturday morning, and Drs Erson and Hooper, were the only witnesses examined to-day, The inquest was adjournod till to-morrow.

AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, .November 29. H.M.S.'s Nelson and Calliope will probably leave here for New Zealand in about ten days' time. Mslboumk, November 29. Tho business of L. Stevenson apd Sons ig being formed into a limited liability pQiupaiiy. Tho shearers' djsptfto stjl| continues, ar.d tho latest report static that 90 {Jnionist ljayo talfen possession of tlje Barwidgep Statjoi; woqlsl|ec|, totally crijjpljng qhearii)? operations, Tl|p police ill t'hp district orp helpless, and mounted copstabjes liayo been SP* moncd to their apistance.

The latest reports from the Iftmbqrley Goldllelds aro of a satisfactory character, Somogood nuggets have recently been found there,

THE STATE OF IRELAND. ~ London, November 28. Rioting of a bohous naturo occurred In Limerick yesterday. The police, hi endeavoring to disperse tho mob, were set upon and atoned, and were ultimately compelled to charge the rioters, many of whom were injured.