MURDER AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS AT AUCKLAND.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 29 September 1880, Page 2

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS AT AUCKLAND.

;• Jx' ; l (BY TELEGRAPH. ) AUCELANp,, Sept. 88. > ; en ry Low Rees s ivha was murdered this morning early on the new north road, nea? the Wesleyan chapel, by a New on the 'an^,is ear y this morning^Ssnmer;^ who was hiding in the scrub evading the < -search, of the police, which had been maJiijfafi?£cP^Qill mfi H9 kil SaM tiijjtifill he cr-ept up noiselessly behind th^pni^: fel] ] poi nding tne,, ground are little pools bi wa Are'' ! hiai i kfe'd F ancf dis'c'olored 3 ?w*ii ifeo jot Keriiiaarks ' th ® ou rage tnfa movning, a presentiment ha JjQja gfoiftg*-fo) the . soki lisfl ' ve their grief was harrowing. r . ieek waS u>riy-tso §BK£3 l of'^6 l | and liv s'd'"a'f 0 I'd'33e in At eljhmSiit > A3 a iti d ivth s (ia l^e^amei 'iW? He had been .working witn a nephew (jfr^'^ma^^iiP'te l Hf^iown •cefe of w< ii'Jfeortuknl.n' iwod o-rxil ,n.i,vjhiornoo J3 P 1 " 0 : ceeaed to Mount Albert, and called at M \ Melville's, at 8 a. ni,, aiid''- , 3MiiiSnded fb >d off r the washerwoman (Mrs. to 'ft'litJiii' litf J ) ' l or oer//potfricedaruttpjcite iJimv a : desoCTf}f*?;> SfSSwl i hr 1 e 1 w *ncr down. .Jhe struck .at her repeatedly w; tilSMle '^Ricds!^hlsi(i)l 5 !^hlsi ( i)l o ws i w: -if{p?a^r a j hj; oked about, while onjQj;1 8®FfifiPjufT 0un d ; e? tends across her temple. Her screa,ms ; biauaht assistance,, and at the noipn of, ffcotWeps fS' w is met w th log * seizing a convenient o] iportfifrtiVff he struck out wich the Ittg ai id bro,ka>th©Jil"ai!lSU age in tj^p. P ig.«tHfeiMfclme out with his revolver, atj[; tl e sight of which Joe held up his hands a: if plea3ing"for'life7' ifiSaTle""signs "aifid • si id aomething in hi? own tongue. Mr. The police = brpug-Bi"Joe to the.station. 1 Great cro , was' J< fine"cl ffie a ynn < It appears that the act must have.been i p remeaftaied ? J 'Ke^aii'^ j: '4drfv^ l: 'li't!tTe ;: ' ! iime 'i bje£di i S' i tiie? / aSsayie' : 'oH | -4heibosraiwa^;iioTn« i:» Queen-street, wnen he sqw the native ■. '■! 1: p u^'yi i]ipktol¥«j' , 4 j c ,j I j l( ] attention ,<3l Constable to tne i c ircun?sxan6^" lul A ,a "fih , 6rfe ,: nyhßtiitfWJoti t&u E cflttM 1 kl'Gwi'donis<inlieferupibiilgjaqd l iiS!ftflPd I a i was aole to give a satisfactory UccoulVt \J#' c lis residence and i ccordingly oil, Joe came 1 o" 4qcl^land tj with Mr, Wiloott frifto Fiji- l l i n the ffie is c ! 15 years of sHi'iTlUHidd, and a \ oiserable specimen'of humanity. a murderous tribe in the New Hebrides J group, t

reaching the police cell a loaf of 3r«i|gwn3 given, to hitn, and he tore it teeth like a ravenous wild ssSii' Wilson, who speaks Fijian, went Hgflpm spoke to him, and succeeded in him understand the general purport of his questions. While speaking he rolled his head from side to side, eating bread all the time. The substance of his •repjroo-waa4h«&»tiie" ft,,kn fiok fid.,. him about, and that his heatf yesterday" was swimming round, and he did pot , There is little "doubt that Tie had been 'Sinking sith OIJ S!. Mrs. Wiflgtcto^..syif& ; , qfi a caettlep ,liy,i,qg near the scene of the Rees by the Fijian, was passing near-on-the night of the ti agedy with* heard soi rids of blows and groans. This was about past nine. Wington] was asked to engagerthe same Fijian, bm t^Sfingei %e'&h £ him'Oir WSM vessel he , H diMiked'! his aappearatice:,) -, and, declined jt©i^er^-ihipa.^„^fi r^g.ues^, H place at one o'clock to-day. ' At the Police Court this morning) thte v Fijian ■v^al'* :! murder andiLtwdyother ,sharg,esj of o assa(Ult, with intent to kill. He pleaded guilty all three charges, and was remaiidß : d" pendingjtjiginquest;» ■ aVi;<