A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A Fiji Coolie Slashes two Woman to Pieces.
(per press association)
Auckland, This Day.
At Eewariver a Fiji Coolie sought the affections of a married woman during her husband's absence which were apparently reciprocated. Another Coolie female threatened to inform the husband. The three went into the house and the man sharpened a knife saying he intended to get food. He then attacked the woman and severed the head from the body at one slash. The other woman rushed outside, but the man caught her and took her back to the house with some trouble, slashing her about the arms and almost repeated the first performance, leaving the head hanging by a small piece | of skin.
lie was arrested without trouble. The second woman is slashed horribly, her left hand hanging by a thread and her right arm slashed. She had fifteen wounds in her head.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 May 1901, Page 3
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149A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 May 1901, Page 3
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