The Kaikoura Murder.
(by telegraph; (united press association.) Xai^oura, This Day. An inquest on the death of a Native woman, Eran Jacob, at Maunngamaru on Friday, was concluded on Saturday evening. The evidence clearly showed that the woman was coolly and deliberately murdered by her husband Batema Jacob. As showing the premeditated nature of the crime it may be stated that he went to his wife to get the setting Btone and oil with which to sharpen the knife. Nothing directed was proved as to an impropei intimacy between the deceased and her brother-in-law, but that such existed and was the cause of the crime is beyond doubt. The jury found th it deceased had met ber death at the hands of Ha tern* Jacob, :
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 55, 29 January 1883, Page 2
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125The Kaikoura Murder. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 55, 29 January 1883, Page 2
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