A NEW ZEALAND TRAGEDY.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 138, 29 May 1880, Page 3

A NEW ZEALAND TRAGEDY.

Otago was tUo scene of a diea'lfnl crimu .)■! the morning of Smidiy, tb< 14th nit. !n a littbi cottage situa.ed ii i ivs|H!itnu!o past oi id.: city, ■« mai mntpil Dewiir, a hiitoUei*. together witl iiis wife and infant child, wcii! brutal! nurde.td in thuir beds. The man win ! found lying on his l.u.i quito dead, with his head eomjilotoly smashed. Tho ; woman was lying in a corner of tho | room, dreadfully wounded in tho same way. , Life was not extinct, lint she j never recovered consciousness, and died :in Few hours. The child hore no signs jot viilonee, ( ,nd hud apparently died I from suffocation. A lighted rulidle hail ; been plaeed under the bed, and. when discovered, the nmttioss and bcd-uluthes | were on fire. The [lerpotratov of the . deed apparently sought to hide.- his fearfid triaie bv setting lire to the premises. During Sunday and Monday the excile- ; loeut was intense in tho extreme. On Tuesday the police arrested criminal of the uania oi liutler. alias ['nelly alias Lee, about thirty wiles the murderer. When confronted ivitirj two ii ibers of the police force liu! lor > nw.d ii.dtt, and threatened tbom with ■■ cap •] lid not oli". '!'!■ • ini|nnst on j ev-:iil \a\ s, and resulted in a verdict c : ! • ■■. : iri co that I'mlercouiuiitto i thoeriin | s.dfi ie.'it'to i :.••••:!!' f'.r s.i.-h ii .iiaholiea] [deed nsihMt -i, en. Jt is stated that ~_, ~:. -. Ih, • I-., t , \vl,' ( j ..|:V',.v ho has boen that period in staol. | ii,- is said to !«■ a mitivo. of Vi-.torla, is i»-e;i biiity well educated. At one tils:- j New .South' Wales Agriculturist audi ,.- , „.. . i