The Perjury Oases.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3294, 28 August 1889, Page 2

The Perjury Oases.

The cross-examination of John Dowd was continued yesterday. Had a cup of tea at Mrs Chemis' on Sunday, tho 2nd Juno. Bid not see uhomis there. Also has some piccos of quail and bits of bread and batter. Mrs Chemis did no,t havfl anything to cat. Mr Bell here referred tho witnoss to his statement, which he made for reforonco to the' Governor, reading the following extract from it:—"l afterward had with Louis Chemis and my sister, audi, partook of somo bits of quail which %y gftvo, and which had been left from dinner." Mr Boll; Now, sir, which story is correct ? Witness; What lam saying now, Mr- 801 l • The true story is what you are telling nsnow?/\Yjliiessi Yos.. Mr Bell: Then the. story you told to. aavo Chemis' lifo was a lie ? Witness: 1 nover told a lie, sir. It might have beon a mistake. Mr Bell: Thoreis no room for a mistake, sir; one is a lie. What you are swearing to-day is the truth ? Witness: Yes. Mr toll j So what you are telling me in swearing away this man's liberty is tho true story, is if? Witness: Yes, Examination continued. Could swear lie never loadod his gun with paper. Mevev fired a bullet with the gun on the L'C'th May. Could swear he iircd off the barrel before he reached tho house. Bid not W've' it loaded. By Mr Jellicoe: Mr Jollicoe drow. up his affidavit to tbej Governor from what witness told! him. |

Timothy Dowd, resident at the Lower Hult, a laborer, deposed that o\i the Saturday before tho Kaiwarvu murder he was living ui Kaiwarra with a cousin of his named John Dowd, Ho went to Clieniis' on Sunday morning, tho Mil May in company with John Dowd. Witness

stayed in the kitchen, and his cousin went-into Chemis' bedroom, Ho brought out a gun, caps, and powder flask, shot pouch, and some wads in Mb hand, Believed the ponder flask produced was the one ho had scon. They all went over the hills shortly afterward. His cousin discharged the gun on tlnv way- home. Could not say how far from Ohernia' houso it was discharged. When he got back to Chemis' ho went into the kit'chon. By Mr Bell: Had not seen his brother load the gun. He did not kuow that only one barrel was loaded. Did not notice the barrel of the gun.

Sir Harry Atkinson (ro-called) stated that, as a member of the Executive, he received a statement from 'Chemis : which he addressed to the Governor, The contents of the statement were made public last Friday night, when the papers in connection with the caso were laid on the table of the Houso, Mrs Chemis was examined in the Court the day before. As far as witnoss knew, Mrs Chemis, or any person' on her behalf, was not made acquainted with tho contents of the statements.

At this stage tho Court was adjourned until to-day, On the perjury' cases being resumed this morning, Mr Jellicoe undertook to produco the shot pouch and knife found near the scene of the murder on Sunday last if defendant's counsel called the finder. He thought that tho ends of justice might be defeated Iw their production, and the Crown would have to take tho responsibility. . . Fredemk' Grcaves'.was the first witness examined. His examination in chief was mainly in the direction of proving that tho powder flask, sbot, caps, and.wads wore in the drawer before tho date of Hawking's death, and also on the day of Chemis' arrest. He also swore to seeing four quail, at Chemis' on June 2nd. In cross-examination gavo a description of Chemis' shotpouch which was an ordinary pooketono. Witness heard of a shot pouoh found on Sunday, To ' his ; knowledge the latter was not m the possession of Chemis on 81st May. James Gibson told witness that he had lent Chemis, the pouch found on Sunday. He was told that before tho commencement of the shooting season which opened in March, That was a long time before Chemis was arrested for murder. The pouch lent by Gibson to Chemis belonged to Hodges of Kaiwarra. Never saw it in Chemis' possession, nor was ho aware that it was at Chemis' in May, On hearing of the finding of a pouch, he and Dowd went to seo Gibson, Had a ' conversation with Gibson and Mrs Chemis about the pouch, but not about the knife. He knew nothing about the knife, and had never seen a tan yard knife at Chemis.' Witness* re-examination was postponed until after the examination of Gibson.

A Western Desperado(San Francisco Alta.) " A folk was askiu' this niorniu' if lever met Billy tho Kid. Well, I Bhould snicker! I was down that way when the Kid was killed by Pat Garrett, an' know all about it; au' I know, too, that Pat didn't give him a square show for bis life. Of course, he'd been a fool if he had, 'causa Billy handled the shooting irons better than any man in New Mexico. The Kid was, an' no mistake, a holy terror. Ho was &s smooth an' pleasant lookin' a littlo feller as yon could wish to 'sociato with, hut ho was "like a snake shinin' in tho sun so slick an' shinin', but death was in bis touch. Ho was slim, an' light haired, an' blue eyed, an' his upper teeth stuck out in front au' made him look more innocent than ever. He was a pleasant kind o' feller until he got mad,' an' then the dust used to lly jest a trifle. 1 seen Billy kill two men at White Oaks, an'he did tho job up clean, They novor kicked. "I was in Santa Pi when Bob Ollinger and Jim Bell brought Bill in after he'd bin arrested. Ho nearly dug out o* gaol there, but they were too sliok for him, au' they tuk him for trial to Mcsilla. Tho prino'pal witness agin him was a feller as, owed him an old grudge an' so Billygot it hot, The necktie party was to be held at Lincoln, an' when Bob Ollinger an' Jim Bell tukbim there they put him in an utstairs room next where tho deputies kep' their guns an' things, They knew Billy was smart an' always one o' them kep' in the room with him."

- V The moniin' after they got to Lincoln, Billy asked tho deputies for old times' sake to looso one of the. bracelets ho had on, an' as Bob, and Jim too, had known Billy for a long; time, they thought tboy couldn't refuso a request liko thaUo thoy loosened one bracelot and loft it danglin' by the othor wrist.

" At dinner time Cob said ha waff goin' ovor the way to get somethin' to eat, an' Jim ho was left with Billy. Tho Kid was draggm' his leg ironsalter him as he walked about, and; Jim Bell was readin', but lifted his eyes every time tho Kid come close to him. All tho same, Billy got his work in groat shape, for ho watched Ins olmnco an' buried tho loose [handcuff in the skull of tho deputy. To make no mistake he pulled Jim's gun from his hoot an' started pumpin' lead into him at a great rate. At the first shot Bob Ollinga jumped from the table where ho waseatin' an'_ said: 'My God! there's Billy tryin' to git, an' Jim's shot him I' Ho rushed out an' across the street an' was just skippin' up the stairs when ho seed Billy standin' at the top p'intin' a Winchester at him. Next minit Bob dropped, dono up in real good stylo with a bullet through his head. Billy never did no bunglin* work, it was always done slick an' neat.,

H o' course, a big orowd got around, but tlioj wasn't all agin Billy, an' when bo got tbe drop on a feller an' told him to come up an* iilo his irons off, why, he did n. When bo got free he rodoouto' Lincoln, an' nary a man darsfc try to stop him. Pat Garrett wasn't there then, but when he hecrd didn't be cuss? Parties made out to kotcli Billy, but ho got down to Panhandle, and after things had toned down, he Wine into New Mexico agin. Billy had been goin* it purty strong in Lincoln county, an' no mistake. In thctusslin' back an" forrard his gang got purty well cleaned out, and Pat Garrett swore he'd got oven with him.. "Billy had taken a fancy to the pretty daughter o' a small ranckman, an 1 she was a sort o' lascinated with him, but the old man wasn't pleased, bowed Billy'd jest take her away with him when ho went, an' if the old mriu kiotel he'd get killed, |.| at'* all, Billy wasn't perticlar; he'd just as soon kill one man as another. The old man was in a bad fix, when, as luck would have it, Pat Garrett he come along, and said lie was lookiii" fer Billy, Now Billy was bpfq"

\ shady at young Maxwell's place, an' the old man put Pat on his trail. Pot got there all right, an' seein' no one around, ho went inside an' found Maxwell in bed. Ho denied that Billy was around, but when Pat got the drop on him an' sworo he'd shoot him if he didn't talk straight, ho confessed that Billy had just gone to tho outhouse to get somo steak for cookin," M had just time to drop behind tho bed whoro young Maxwell ms lyin', when in eomo Billy s jfcith his knife in ono hand and his "" liis gun m tho other, Tho Kid was 'spicioug, however, as if he'd smelled something was wrong. Coinin' from the blindin' sun into tho 'dobo houso ho couldn't see well, but when ho entered he asked; " Quion sabe ?" Ho was just saying tlio words when Pat put two bullets into him before anybody could wink twice He hated Pat like pisen, an' if he'd had any idea that Pat was armed yo bet he'd never taken J- chances, for lie was like an Indian, Slid jost as treacherous. He'd play up to a man au' make him think he washiß friond, an' when ho got him off his guard he'd kill him. Ho was a mighty queer lad; whenever ho got hia fingers near a gun thoro was bound to be a dead man not far a>vay. Why, he could just ninke n pistol talk, an' when ha was around all the boys sung low. I didn't pine much whon I hoard ho was killed ; fact is, I thought Billy had something agin mo, and I was lookin' out sharp that ho didn't plug a hole in me." * Lincoln College.

(Canterbury Times)

We recently published mi article on tin; Agricultural College at Lincoln, written by a member ot our staff aftor a visit to the institution, and a close inspection of its organisation and working. Tho article will no doubt bo rend with interest by our firming readers, But since that article was written, * recently published Australasian has come to hand, Thorn a report in which wo obtain ;otne figures about Dookie College which wo think are really worth quoting, It will be remembered by those who read tho report of the Commissioners, who enquired into the working, h, of tho Lincoln College, that the costs of students por head at Dookio was stated at £22185, From the Australasian's report, we learn that tho average number of persons at tho college including visitors, has been to the end of Junu last fifty-two, and the cost per head of thoso bad been f'j 2s Gd for maintenance, but if tho dents alone were taken, tho cost per head would bccousidcrablygreater, Now that the premiums required to bo paid bv studouts at the Lincoln College havo been reduced to £4O per annum, as compared with £65 previously, no effort should be spared to keep the institution before the public, and very prominently to, Wo do not fancy that everything is being done that ought to be done in the way of advertising the College, and the advantages of a training there. Probably the' authorities are regulating their Oftpenditure in this direction less by their appreciation of the benefits of llin College, and their desire to extend them among young agricultural colonists than by the amount of funds at their disposal, Perhaps this is so, but to lose tho occasion of the reduction of fees as an advertising time, 6eems to us mistaken economy, It would bo wise, we think, if in every library, Koad Board Office, Public School, and at every Post Offib and Eailway Station in the Coluiiy, a placard were displayed Betting forth tho advantages conferred by the College, and giving all necessary details, As it -is the College is better known just now from the faults publicly found with it, and that have crept into print, than by its real merits, and these, had it been a private institution, its promoters would havo taken all pains to keep before the public.