Murder by a Lunatic.
[Per Association Telegrams,] Auckland, July 10. A telegram from Ohinemutu last night says yesterday constable Adams arrived here with a Native named Meihana, a lunatic, for having murdered a Native woman, named Te Tahoma: a, at Te Ngac, that day. The body was afterwards buried, but the constable had it exhumed. An inquest is to be held. The murderer was at one time in an asylum. On being questioned, the reason he gives is that the spirit told him to kill the woman.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 179, 10 July 1884, Page 2
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87Murder by a Lunatic. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 179, 10 July 1884, Page 2
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