SOUTH SEA MURDERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 67, 19 July 1915, Page 2

SOUTH SEA MURDERS.

COOLIE AXED AT SAMONfc. GIRL SHOT AT SOMABULA. Pkr I’rkss Association. Auckland, July 19. Xews of the murder in Samoa was brought by the passengers on the steamer Tofua, which arrived at Auckland yesterday. The victim was a coolie employed on a plantation some distance from Apia, but, vviioii the .steamer left, the police had not identified the author of the crime. The man had been attacked with an axe. and bis body was 'horribly mutilated. During the morning on which the man was killed, all the other coolies employed on the plantation were in Apia, having been summoned there as witnesses in a court case, so that it consideied that the prospective absence oi the murdered man’s usual companions was taken into consideration by the author of the crime. News was also received by the Tofua that a murder was committed on the morning of duly 8 by an Indian at Somabula, in the Fiji group. The victim, a girl of about fifteen year -., was slmt. The murderer then paraded the neighbourhood with a plentiful supply of ammunition. - party of police left Suva immediately 'f, r the scene of the crime, and it was afterwards learned that the Indian had been shot.