GRUESOME TRAGEDY
DOUBLE ,MURDER IN FIJI
NATIVE KILLS MOTHER
AND SISTER
SUVA, March 22. The town of "Venideuba, in the interior, of Viti Levu, was the scene of a gruesome double murder, a Fijian aged 24 beheading his mother and his sister, j
It is alleged that he returned from hospital and found that his father had killed his (the son's) cow for a feast to the builders of a new native house. The son was so incensed that he became temporarily insane,,and attacked his mother while she was preparing food, almost severing her head from her body, with a sixteen-inch • cane knife. Later he 'attacked his sister, killing her similarly. The young man was arrested.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 69, 23 March 1933, Page 11
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116GRUESOME TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 69, 23 March 1933, Page 11
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