THE TE AROHA MURDER. Magistrate's Inquiry. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OWN CORESPONDENT.] Grahamstown, Yesterday.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1351, 26 February 1881, Page 3

THE TE AROHA MURDER. Magistrate's Inquiry. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, OWN CORESPONDENT.] Grahamstown, Yesterday.

The Magistrate's Inquiry Into the To Aroha murder continued from 8 o'clock till midnight. John Moore deposed : I knew prisoner, lived m the same whare. Remember the race". On the following night I went to bed about 9. Prisoner was absent when I went to bed. I next <&\v him about 12 that night. When he came to the door of the whare prisoner n sited him what time it was, and lie a«ked prisoner to strike a match and look at his watch — which was an hour slow. It was five minutes to eleven by the watch. After that the prisoner l-cmained outside. Witness lay down again. Saw prisoner again after that, but could not say what time it was. It might have been 10 or 11 minutes after that when he had occasion to go outside, as he was not well. Prisoner appeared to be fixing something at the top of the wrare, as he heard the raupo rustling. Was absent about ten minutes. When lie returned he did not see prisoner. Went to bed again. Had occasion to go out again during the night, but could not say how long after. Was away about ten minutes. On going out and returning on this occasion he found something like clothes hanging in the doorway of the whare. Had to go in aud out on his hands and knees, owing to the clothing hanging in the doorway, which Aveie wet. Touched some of the clothes, and found water dropping off them on to the blankets. The clothes were not there when he went out on the first occasion. It was not daylight when lie went out the second time. Believed the clothes were placed there between the first and second tune of guing out that night. Got up about 6 o'clock. Prisoner was then outsule. Asked prisoner if he had been washing, as he saw clothes hanging at the doorway. Prisoner said lie must wabh .some time. Had not known him to wash clothes at the whare before. The clothes included shirts and trousers. Saw a knife in piisoner's possession, having a wooden handle. The one produced is similar. Did not see prisoner on Thursday, after lie wont out in the morning, until midnight. Prisoner had no cuts or bruises on Thursday morning, but next morning saw that he had a swollen nose. Witness was shortsighted. Prisoner might have had cuts or bruises about Ins face without witness observing them. Had frequent conversations with the prisoner, but these weie never m Russian language. Did not notice anything peculiar about the accused when lie came to the whare on Thiusday night and asked the time. He did not seem excited. He often came in late, sometimes the worse for liquor. He was quarrelsome at times. He had threatened to cut people's throats and other things. Heaid something of a quarrel between prisoner and the brothcis. Uatr.in, but knew nothing of it pei&onally. By Mr Thomson : When prisoner was drinking, he was quarrelsome, and often threatened to cut people's tlnoats. John Beagan deposed to hearing screams on the night of the murder, at II o'clock. Dr. Huxtable was the ne\t witness, and his e\ uleiice occupied the greater pait of to-day.