KAIWARRA MURDER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2652, 11 July 1889, Page 2

KAIWARRA MURDER.

(l!Y TKI.ICCUAI'II. — I'KKSS ASSOCIATION.) Wi-:li.i xerox, Wednesday. Mary Hawkins, wile of the murdered man, {rave similar evidence to that in the Lower Court. She telegraphed to L-jrdin, who lived at Voxtnn to come and attend llawkin'.s funeral be.eau.se they were Croat friends. There was no quarrel between them, (b-oige Howies and her husband had some words over sbeyp, bid; never (pinrrelied. Some L!U'J .-beep worn brought from l'.owles' place to her lni.sbmd's, and the. hitter paid for them ; I hey were not brought, down to prole.-t Howl-as while he went throu-rh the bankruptcy court, ami Howies never applied to fret, them back. ft was untrue. Hawkins ever said the first time he met Howies lie would shoot him like a dog. Xone of her family ever quarrelled. Hawkins never had a row with poacher.-.) bet objected to persons .shooting on his property.

]<\ W. Lei dm, r, .Finlander, deposed he was invited to Ilawkin's birthday party and denied ho had over quarrelled with him in' was ordered nut of the house; mi the contrary they were always pond friends. John Tucker, a labourer, ffave evidence of a conversation between him and the prisoner la*t December when the hitter cursed Hawkins and threatened to fix him. >Ste|>hen M. (Ireen was examined after lunch, and deposed to |licking up two pieces of the Kvpnirig l.'nst i f November l'.lth, which Ml' I'ii'll ''xnhdeed fitted a t-.ru copy of same is-oie ill Chemis' house. I'eter Joseph said on the niu'ht of f he. murder he was from Khandallah to Kaiwarra by a short cut over the hills, and saw a man with a dnnble.-i.iari (died <iun approaching the track from (lie left., and disappear into some stunted bu-li in flu' Rully. Uould not recognise the man, but it was not Ohemis. In answer to Mr I'.'ll, witness said when he first, saw him he wa-s as near as he could jud'/e, ceiling from the direction of Hawkins' iiou-e. .Mr Hkyy, < iovcrntneiif airdysi-l, repeateil his fomiuroviilcnee as l» e'-::in initvi the dabster and clothes foeed in pii-oner's house, but. could find no tr.,c : of blood. T. Ilradfoi'd, Government armourer, in cross-examination said he was strongly of opinion Hint both barrels of the, "un found at (memis's Were not fired on the same day. The v/ourt adjourned at i! p.m.