A MURDER GANG.
XOUMEAN MURDERERS FINISHED. Sydney, April 22. A series of crimes have been brought to light at Noumea by the trial of a number of persons for the murder of three men in the nickel districts of Pmicmboul and Kone. Two of the victims were shot while their grass huts were set on lire; Hie third was shot on the road. The object was to get possession of money. One of the leaders, who is the chief assassin of it band, was an Arab German, lie was shot dead by a gendarme. Arrighi, a Corsicai!, was sentenced to death, whilst Santa Oroce, who planned the crimes, and Crimaqiu were sentenced tu twenty years and ten years respectively. A woman named l'oisin was sentenced to five years.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19090423.2.23.17
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 74, 23 April 1909, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
128A MURDER GANG. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 74, 23 April 1909, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in