CRIME IN SAMOA
‘POSITION VERY SERIOUS’ MURDERER GOES FREE Press Association. DUNEDIN, To-day. Following is an extract from a letter dated January 11 received in Dunedin from Samoa: “Business is very slack here. The picture theatre has been closed down by order of the administration, so that natives won’t meet. Large crowds gathered one night just outside the picture theatre and. the band, which consists entirely of natives, was playing prior to the beginning of the picture programme, when the police arrested two members who were also members of the Mau. “When the Mau Committee heard of this they all went to the police station, intending to burn the building if the prisoners were not set free. That night, when the crowd returned to their homes, some of them met a policeman on duty at the Customs. They attacked him and badly wounded him with a knife. A reward of £2O has been offered by the Police Department for information regarding his assailants. “A reward has also been offered for information regarding the thrashing of a Chinese coolie, and one of £IOO for information regarding a double murder, but neither has been claimed. No clues have been given in respect of these three crimes, so the position in Samoa can be considered very serious.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 266, 31 January 1928, Page 9
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214CRIME IN SAMOA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 266, 31 January 1928, Page 9
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