THE KAIWARRA MURDER.
(l!Y TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WellingroN, Wednesday. Mr Jellicoe waited on the Governor personally, and laid the papers in connection with the Cheniis case before him. The convict lias foi warded a statement to the Government on his own account, but the latter decline to giyo any information as to its nature.
Mr H. 13. Bell, Crown Prosecutor, who conducted tho case against Chetnis, has commenced an action for libel against Mr E. Jeliieoe. solicitor, claiming £'0000 damages for alleged injury contained in certain paragraphs in tho shorthand notes taken by the Government shorthand reporter at an interview between Mr Jeliieoe and the prisoner and published. When Chemis was informed that tho Government had declined to allow Mr Jeliieoe to interview him again he asked for writing materials, which were at once supplied to him, and he then wrote a statement, to the Government purporting to be a truthful account of his movements on the night of 31st May. He asserts his innocence and protests against being hanged for a crime of which he says he is innocent. The statement, which was written in Italian, will bo laid before the Governor in duo course.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2658, 25 July 1889, Page 2
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195THE KAIWARRA MURDER. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2658, 25 July 1889, Page 2
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