Frederick Atcheson deposed, — I am Inspector of the Police of Wellington. I know the prison er I apprehended him. I hold an authority to prose cute under the Arms Act. I apprehended the prisoner in Manners St. on the 14th Oct., 1803. I told him I apprehended him for a breach of the Arms Act. He said, " I have heard of this before how are you to prove it ?" Ha said I'll never turn traitor. On the 17th December, after his committal, I was at the gaol, and he called me to his cell. "He said lam in tor six years now." I cautioned him— l said " anything you say to to me may be used against you " ; he said " I don't caro now lam in for it " ; he said " I sold the gun, but my mate, Moses, had half the money, and get him iv for it he also said. "we sold some powder and shot the next day " ; this was after his committal ; I had some conversation with him on the 29th November, before committal aud after remand ; prisoner sent for me, and asked me how many charges I had against him ?" I said two, viz : Mohi, and a native at Waikanae ; he said " I did not sell the gun, but my mate did " ; he said " that his mate, Moses Whittingham, had got a license to buy it from^Mr Moore " ; I went to the Custom house, and found that a permit hadjbeen granted to Moses Wittingham, to buy a gun from Mr Moore.
