RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT CLYDE.
I ( From our Correspondent.) (Before Vincent Puke, Esq., 11. J/., and J aiiuM# 1 la-.ktt and J. D. Fcraud, Msqs., J.P.\s&£ ■ THE GOLD BOBBERY. i.' EXAMINATION* OP CONSTABLE M‘I,ENNAJ<ifL! it , r . , rswuis cc>;r. Luksuay, August 23. ! ' The prisoner M'Lenuan, on being placed in the : V dock, charged with the robbery of the gold and \ Q'f.r notes from the Camp, Clyde, on the morning bf j Ist August, appeared cool and collected!’ j . ai The prosecution was conducted by Mr Sub* : inspector Percy, and Detective Farrell read the •! Vi,’-charge against the prisoner. The first witness, called was Y 1 W. Arthur, surveyor, Clyde, who, on being 1 1,.,,, sworn, deposed that he had made a plan of the ■ Police Camp, showing the position of the -gaol, t-fej; the gaoler’s house, the barrack-rooms, the-ltw i specter's house, and the wall round tire ; k" F “It also shows the position of the wire MnMmr ! : : rfr' front of the garden in the possession of ! "• ' ; Garde, and tire position of the water-hole. The, sod wall round the Camp is correctly laid dovhjjt 1 except that portion round the Inspector’s house. ti 1 have laid down the plan by scale. I have also - shown in the corner of the map an enlarged plan 5- *of the lock-up or gaol. This latter is also laid I > down by scale, and is correct. I here produce’ the plan. I have indicated on both plans tSJ | place where the gold boxes arc said to have be£tl‘ j taken over the sod wall. ” By the Prisoner : Were you aware that marks’ f were made with gold boxes on the wall byAlr Percy, a few days after the robbery ? Witnfp® I if.-V No.—ln answer to the Bench, the witness JaidJ the marks on the wall were pointed out lf(‘: by Constable Smith. p;V- Mr Percy said that he would have liked to J p; call Mr Jones and Mr Purdie, of the BanKTfifjJ ifi? ■ New Zealand, Alexandra, as the next wituesaMM k.pJ: to prove the delivery of the gold ; but as it wouM I sjjL inconvenience Mr Jones, by causing him to shut I "fy® the hank, he weuld leave those witnesses untilj the afternoon. He would now call Rennie, and a ‘..vf;, had to request the Bench to clear the Court* while the witness was being examined. x . 'S Sk-. The request was acceded to, and the CoOrtM ’cleared, ,hvkfH;| is expected..tißhC" tlie hearing of U|i-(ata* extraordinary Remedy for dcterqninatiou of blohd to the Head. Miss Henrietta Wright, Mossel Bay, snllercd most excessively for eight years and a half from determination of blood to the head, so had at times that she would fall down in crossing a room as if dead. She consulted three different physicians, and studiously followed their advice, which however failed to benefit her. Dissolution was hourly -expected. At this time she tried Holloway’s Pills, which quickly did their work, by removing from the system all the noxious matter, carrying off the bad fluids, and left her in the enjoyment of perfect health. Her friends have all been astonished by the apparent transformstion - Yet all this has been affected by the us 8 of Holloway’s Pills.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 41, 24 August 1870, Page 5
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534RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT CLYDE. Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 41, 24 August 1870, Page 5
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