A SISTER’S REVENGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 46, 30 June 1913, Page 5

A SISTER’S REVENGE.

TWO MURDERS AT OREORE.

MAORI WOMAN RILLED AND THE SLAYER SLAIN. [Per Press Association.] Wanganui, June 29. Information has reached Wanganui of a sensational affair at Oreore (Waimarino County), in which a Maori woman was murdered, and her slayer has himself been killed. It appears that a man named Joe Graham had for some time been living with a Maori woman named Hirita Tenata. They fell out on Friday, and Gr,aham left, intending to go to a. neighbor’s place. Yesterday Hirita’s aunt and sister saw him return with his swag, as if going to Raetihi. Some time afterwards they heard a shot from the j direction of the house in which Gra- ; ham was wont to live, so they went over and found Graham in the bedroom, and on their going in he endeavored to hide the dead body of his companion, by standing between it and the intruders. Graham had shot Hirita with a pea rifle. It is alleged that deceased’s sister, roused to fury at the sight, took up a heavy cross-cut saw and savagely attacked Graham, inflicting frightful injuries on his head. This was about 2.30 on Saturday afternoon. On receipt of information of the tragedy Constable McCrae and a doctor left Raetihi for the scene. Within ten or fifteen minutes later their arrival Graham died, without being able to give an account of the affair. An inquest will be opened at Ohakune. The accused will appear before the Court at Raetihi. NEWS FROM ANOTHER SOURCE. HEAD NEARLY SAWED OFF. Taihape, June 80. News came to hand last night of a double murder at Oreore, near Raetihi, on Saturday afternoon. Joe Graham fatally shot a Maori girl named Nirite. Graham was then attacked by a Maori woman with a saw; his head being nearly severed from his body, and he died in two hours.