MURDER IN FIJI.
The "Fiji Times" of June 19 says:— "On Friday afternoon last the police were notified that an Indian woman, flamed Lachminia. was missing from Muanikau, and had been absent since Thursday morning. The husband. Hennani, an Indian servant eugaged in Suva: stated that be suspected that his wife had left for Rewa in company with an Indian man. Investigation by the police proved that the woman had been murdered. Her body was found on Friday morning by an Indian named Addim tied up in a sack in a dotibled-up position. The discovery was made near the mouth of c small creek at Muanikau. The woman had been foully murdered by a stab in the throat, the instrument of which had broken the spinal column. The implement used must have been a heavy one, resembling a pick or crowbar, and the wound was about three inches across. The police have arrested the husband and brother-in-law, who were brought before the Chief Police Magistrate on Monday, and remanded for a week.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 150, 25 June 1907, Page 3
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