Deceased was a sawyer, and worked for Mr W. Coop, a saw miller, about 2i miles up the valley. Jakobson is a married man with a wife in his native country. He works for Mr Harry W.hite, a farmer in the district. The hotel is kept by Mr Archibald M’Nao, who is just in the act of transferring it to Mr James Bruce, the new licensee. George Robinson's version of the. affair is, that the men were drinking together at the hotel on Friday night. The three Finns came into the room at the side of the hotel, where a sort of concert was going on. It was a few minutes to nine o’clock. Afterwards, in the passage of the bar, the men had a bit of a row about a broken glass, smashed by Jakobson. Deceased said to Jakobson, “ You’ll have to pay for it,” and Robinson also told him to pay for it. The Finns went out together. At half-past ten, a man named Hutchins said there was something up outside. Robin son went out, and found Matts Johanson stabbed to the heart, lying on the road. Ho (Robinson) got a light,and found on touching the face of the body that it was quite cold, and on further examination found a wound over the heart. He afterwards suggested to I those collected about that they should follow and arrest the Finns, Robinson got his horse, j and rode about half a mile up the valley, and overtook Jakobson, the bigger man, coming back towards the hotel. He passed him, and then turned his horse, and asked him if he would have a nip of whiskey, holding out his hand as if to give him some. Jakobson said something in his own language, and reached out his hand when Robin son seized him by the wrists, threw him, and held him till the other persons came up, and Jakobson was secured and taken to the lockup. Robinson thee went after Anders Nyman, the smaller man. He overtook him by Rankin’s shop, about half a mile further up the road, and arrested him in the same manner. The men were put in seperato cells in the look-up at Little Eirer.
