ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 25, 4 May 1916, Page 6

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

MAORI WOMAN'S JEALOUSY. Per Press Association. Auckland, May 2. A sensational incident occurred tins morning at a Maori settlement on au island known as Swamarohi. in the Waikato river and as a result a Maori •woman has been arrested on a charge of attempting to murder a Maori named Knoka. The woman and Knoka were two of t,he inhabitants of the settlement, and lived with a number of other .Maoris in a whare. According to the natives, the woman became jealous, and at daybreak she left the whare and proceeded to her father’s dwelling, where she obtained a shotgun. Upon her return, Knoka was still lying on rugs on floor of the whare, and without warning she fired at him pointblank, The rugs’afforded some protection against the pellets, but some pierced the covering and passed right through his left thigh, causing a gaping wound. Other wounds was inflicted on the, lower pf i't of, .the body.

Dr. Wake proceeded to the island to attend Jie wounded man, and he found that he was being treated by .'the natives according to their own ideas ol medicine. In spite of all arguments, the injured man refused to allow himself to he removed for treatment at tinAuckland Hospital, declaring that he was certain he would die it he entered the hospital. }