DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
MAORI WOMAN* MURDERED
(By Telegraph.—Special to Guardian
WHANG All FI, June !1
An atrocious murder was committed at \\ aimea native settlement near llawene, llokianga. It, oeeurred about two o clock on Saturday morning, a .Maori, named lluki Bi'iic*. battering bis wife’s skull with a stone, the vie-j tint expiring at noon.
The first intimation was given tufhe settlement by the children of the victim excitedly crying, “Father is murdering mother, come quick.” The natives found the woman in n ü bare in a dying condition, with n bloodstained stone alongside. .Meantime, Bene bad disappeared. A hue and cry was raised and cvontuallv he
wa- located at llawene where Bene climbed a tree with a view to hiding. Finding this futile lie leaped from the tree, a distance of AO feet, into a shallow creek, occasioning concussion and unconsciousness. He was conveyed by train to Whangaroi and oxl>""d on route. At Whakapara a! post mortem revealed a fracture of the base of tlie skull.
Jealousy is the supposed motive" ni the crime. The woman was aged about .*O.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1924, Page 3
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179DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1924, Page 3
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