GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.
NATIVE WOMAN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. New Plymouth, September 12. Arapera Koiora Hadfield, the wife of the Rev. Kahi Hadfield, of Waitara, was found guilty of manslaughter in the Supreme Court today. She beat her foster-child, a little girl, with a broken tennis racquet until, according to the medical evidence, the body and limbs were a .mass of bruises. She then put the child to bed, but it died shortly afterwards. Accused said that the child had sworn obscenely at her and she had stripped her clothes off and the naked body was beaten. The application of the defence for a Maori jury was granted and they found their country-woman guilty, after two hours’ deliberation. Sentence was deferred till Saturday.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3844, 13 September 1928, Page 2
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122GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3844, 13 September 1928, Page 2
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