SHOT BY A MAORI WOMAN.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 105, 4 May 1916, Page 6

SHOT BY A MAORI WOMAN.

i» A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT. AUCKLAND, May 2. A sensational incident occurred this morning at the Maori settlement on the island known as Swamarohi, in the Waikato River. As a result a Maori woman has been arrested on a. charge of attempting to murder a Maori named Enoka. The woman and Enoka were two of the inhabitants-of the settlement and lived with a numbr of other Maoris in a whare. According to the natives the woman became jealous. At daybreak she left, the whare and proceeded to a further dwelling, where she procured a shotgun. Upon her return Enoka Avas still lying on the rugs on the floor of the whare, and without warning she fired at him point blank. The rugs afforded some protection against the pellets, but some pierced the coverings and passed through his left thigh, causing a gaping wound. Other wounds were inflicted on the lower part of the body. Dr. Wake proceeded to the island to attend the wounded man. He found he was being treated by the natives according to their own ideas of medicine. In spite of all arguments the injured man refused to allow himself to be removed for treatment at the Auckland Hospital, declaring that he "was-" certain -he would die if he entered the hospital.