FATAL ENCOUNTER WITH FERN-HOOKS
ITALIAN FOUND NOT GUILTY ON MURDER CHARGE By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 10.15 a.m. MELBOURNE, To-day. Critri, aii Italian fern-cutter, was charged with the murder of a country* man - Polistina, in the Gippsland district. nJ? 6 WaS * not guilty.—A. and tfA- c 2 b,e » ram from Melbourne on OcA.T , b r . ead as folio wsT—— wii Ita,i an fern-cutter was found in a 9ul\y at Abshott, Gippsland. shockf mutilated, with two blood-stained «rrn-hooks beside him. He died before ,could be removed to hospital. 14A?* ganger in charge of a number of engaged ii fern-cutting stated for two °f them. He searched i_ and came upon deceased. It Mnv rm jd two men entered the after a dispute a desperate •ent with fern-hooks occurred. Suddsn Death.—Miss Huru, a wellRotorua business woman, who ra out to make a trip to England, a,” suddenly in Wellington on Sun-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 178, 18 October 1927, Page 1
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