[?]ANGAREI TRAGEDY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 296, 9 August 1932, Page 5

[?]ANGAREI TRAGEDY

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HALF-CASTE STANDS 1RIAL FOR MURDER OF OLD MAN

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I AUCKLAND, Monday. ^arge of murdering George an old aged pensioner at Rua- ;■> near Whangarei, on or about Was preferred against Heta jjardner, a half caste Maori, f years, in the Supreme Court. f£al evidence would indicate 'tfdner was not fully developed ^ Di\ H. M. Buchanan, medi■ianintendent at the Auckland pnspital, said that accused told ^ he had been stabbed in the [ift a knife when he was about £» old. There was a scar on $ but an X-ray examination [ no pathological brain changrnversation and outlook were and in witness's opinion, , intellectually not more 'r'e °r ten years old. McDiarmid, county sur- ^ described the finding of de- ? the hut with wounds in his 'nounsel for accused, he-said g16 impression in the neigh- - that deceased had obtained a few years ago when | f2ed of his -dnterest in Yis p witness did not have the jj that the money was kept u': Tou will have noticed in M'nos the great number of P and unemployed tramping |tnere? — Witness: Yes. pring was adjourned.