THE EPSOM MURDER. Sentence of Death.
The trial of Wiuiata for the murder of Packer in 1876, commenced [at the" Supremo Court, Auckland, on Friday, and wad finished on Saturday. Mr Hudson Williamson, Crown "Prosecutor, conducted the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr Dufaur. The evidence adduced differed in no material points from that brought forward at the Magisterial enquiry. No witnesses were called for the defence, but the course adopted by prisoner's counsel was to throw doubt on the identity of the prisoner with the man seen in Mr Cleghorn's yard on the morning of the murder. His Honor summed up clearly and impartially, and the jury, after an absense of about three quarters of an hour returned into Court with a verdict of guilty. In answer to the usual challenge, Winiata made a long statement, denying that his was the hand that committed the murder, and imputing the crime to the half-caste so frequently referred to by him. His Honor, Judge Gillies, then pronounced sentence of death, and the prisoner was removed to Mount Eden gaol, to await the carrying out of the sentence.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1566, 18 July 1882, Page 2
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188THE EPSOM MURDER. Sentence of Death. Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1566, 18 July 1882, Page 2
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