INDIAN WOMAN MURDERED
Press Association. AUCKLAND, last night. Tho Fiji Times of June 19th says: On Friday afternoon last the polic 0 were notified that- an Indian woman named Lacliminia was missing from Muanikau, and had been absentsinco Thursday morning. Her husband, Hermania, an Indian servant engaged in Suva, stated that he suspected his wif 0 had left for ltewa in company with an Indian man. Investigation proved that the woman had been murdered. Her body was found on Friday morning ]>y an Indian named Addin, tied nil ill a sack jji a doubled-up position. The discovery was made near the mouth of IT small creek at Muanakia. Tho woman had been murdered by a stab in the throat. The instrument had broken the spinal column. The implement used must have been a heavy one, resembling a pick or a crowbar, and the wound was about Sin across. The police have arrested her husband and brother-in-law,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 2
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156INDIAN WOMAN MURDERED Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 2
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