Second Edition THE WAITOTARA STABBING CASE.
Later particulars' give a different color to the affair. The man >tvas drank, and in a fit of jealousy he stabbed his own wife and the native before a small pocket-knife, and making several slight stabs. Tha natives held a sort of of trial over him ; finding him “guilty ” but half silly from drink, they punished him by throwing drops of scalding water on his face and putting wet rags (wrung ; in : hot water)' on his bare back and feet. He is how kept in native custody, and Constable Crozier was not allowed to see him, and did not interfere.
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Patea Mail, 17 May 1882, Page 3
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