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inside the Court. At their termination, the prisoner 
was guarded to the new jail, about a mile off, by a 
file of soldiers. 
This E TVaho was the same native who was iden- 
tified at the time as having been seen following Milne 
the night he was killed. 
When the stolen things, for which he was commit- 
ted to take his trial, were seen in his box, clothes said 
to have been worn by Milne the night he was mur- 
dered and stripped were also seen there and identified. 
In consequence of this, Mr. Smith, the cousin of the 
murdered man, who had throughout been diligent in 
his endeavours to find out and bring the murderer to 
justice, at the conclusion of the investigation applied 
for a warrant for the purpose of searching the pri- 
soner's boxes, and the warrant was granted by Major 
Richmond. 
The keys of the prisoner's box were given, at the 
conclusion of the investigation of the theft, to Mr. 
Clarke junior. Mr. Smith requested Mr. Clarke to 
accompany him to the pa to examine the boxes ; but 
he hesitated to do so, and at last acknowledged that he 
feared for the safety of his life. He subsequently went 
down as far as the jo«, and on seeing the natives, said 
they were too excited to allow of the boxes being 
searched at that time. Mr. Smith was afraid that, 
should time be allowed, the evidence of the man's guilt 
might be destroyed ; but all his entreaties were of no 
avail. Mr. Clarke's fears overcame his sense of duty. 
His appearance was described by the lookers-on as truly 
pitiable, as he shrunk pale and trembling from the task 
imposed upon him. 
Early the next morning, the Maori were seen by 
numerous and trustworthy witnesses to remove from 
the l)oxes the clothes supposed to be the evidence of 
E TVaho % guilt as the murderer of Milne. Mr. 
