THE OUTRAGE AT AUCKLAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2059, 29 September 1880, Page 3

THE OUTRAGE AT AUCKLAND.

fpsa PBEBB ASSOCIATION SPECIAL VVIBK. | AUCKLAND, September 28. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Henry Louis Bees, who was murderedthi morning early on the new North nea, the Wes’eyan Chapel, by the New Hebnde Islander “Joe,” left homo meet h« wife He missed her on the road, and hl ® home early this morning was ® efc by Joe who was hiding in the scrub evading the search of the police, which had been maintained all night. The temptation to kill was too strong for the Islander, and he P J E noiselessly behind the poor fellow. f^ him to the earth. The surrounding ground and little pools of water are marked and discolored with blood, but there arej.o otbe marks to denote a stru gle. 0 wife of Bees, on hearing of the outrage this morning, had a presentiment that the victim was her husband, as he had no If®Jivtlhome. On going to the spot with her daughter her fears were verified, and their gnat was harrowing. Bees was forty-two years of age, and lived at Morningside. He arrived in Auckland thirteen months ago inthe Famenoth, with his wife and three daughters, and has been working with his > Eedshaw, in a boiling-down establishment but wqb recently out of work. Mount completing the murder, proceeded^ Albert. Me called at Mr Melville lat Sam., and demanded food from tno was - ÜBe{ j’ Mrs Arnold, to whom he spoke. S ’ and Joe at once pounced upon ber. anJafter a desperate resistance on ner P arfc t “ ro £ down. He struck at her repeatedly with the axe, but flbe fenced off J 5lO , , 1 ner arms. T bey are fearfully h ■> while one severe wound extends , temple. Her screams brought assistance, and at the noise of footsteps Jos d ® oa ™P ed ’ r“ the yard he was met by Mr Melville, who assailed him with a log of wood. Sizing a convenient opportunity, he struck out with the log and broke the handle of the axe in two. His wife came out with his revolver, a the sight of which Joe held up his hands as if pleading for his life, and made signs and said something in his own tongue. Mr Melville secured the murderer with ropes, ana tied his hands and feet till the police arrived. The police brought Joe to the station, and on the way groat crowds line the streets to get a glimpse of the savage. It appears that the act must have been premeditated, because some

little time before the aosault on the boys was committed last night Constable Gordon, who was attired in plain clothes, was standing in Queen street when ho saw the native passing up with the axe in his hand, which he was apparently trying to conceal from observation. Constable Gordon s a suspicions were roused and he directed tho attention of Constable Gorman to the circumstance. A short consultation resulted in Constable Gordon’s interrupting and interrogating tho man, who did not appear intoxicated or under any excitement, and was able to give a satisfactory account of his residence end business. He was, accordingly, allowed to pass on. Joe came to Auckland with Wilcott from Fiji, in the Meg Merrilies, a month ago. He is twenty-five years of age, of small build, and a miserable specimen of humanity, MV John I’hurston, of Fiji, states that he belongs to the most treacherous and murderous tribe in the New Hebrides group. After reaching the police cell, a loaf of bread was 4- n Vim TTa fnvli if. tzrif.li Ilia f.ftflth libfl

a ravenous wild beast. Mr Wilson, who speaks Fijian, went in and spoke to him, and succeeded in making him understand generally the purport of his questions. While speaking he rolled his head from side to side, eating bread all the time. The substance of his replies was that the white people knocked him about, and that bis head yesterday was swimming round, and he did not know what was tho matter with him. There is little doubt that he had been drinking with some Fiji boys.

September 29. Mr E. Wington, the wife of a settler living near the scene of the murder of Bees by the Fijian was passing near on the night of the tragedy with her daughter and heard sounds of blows and groans. This was about a quarter past nine. Mr Wington was asked to engage the same Fijian, but having seen him on board the vessel, disliked his appearance and declined to hire him. The inquest takes place at one o’clock to-day. At the,Police Court this morning the Fijian was brpught ud on a charge of muidor and two other charges of assault with intent to kill. He pleaded “Guilty” on all three charges, and was remanded pending an inquest.