A MAORI TRAGEDY.
Auckland, Aug. 10. The Auckland Herald’s correspondent telephoned to-night that the police have arrested a Maori at Waipuna in connection with the shooting tragedy at Oramahoe. Ihimaera, the second victim of the shooting, did not recver [recover] from an operation, and died in the Kawakawa Hospital to-day. The deceased male victim of the tragedy is stated, says the Auckland Herald, to have exercised a spell of terror over the natives, and a cloud of Maori superstition has to be contended with. He is reputed among the natives to be a “tohunga,” and his influence was widely dreaded. The appearance of Ihimaera prior to the affray was aweinspiring. One eye was blod-shot —the other being distorted by disease, and always covered with a bandage. The natives would willingly go out of their way to avoid encountering him. The woman, on the contrary, was well liked, so the suggestion is advanced that the assailant did not intend to kill her, but mistook her for the man.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2018, 21 August 1919, Page 3
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167A MAORI TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2018, 21 August 1919, Page 3
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