NEWS FROM THE ISLANDS.
MURDERS 13V NATIVES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. News of a murder in Samoa was brought by the passengers on the steamer Tofua, which arrived at Auckland yesterday. The victim was a coolie employed on a plantation some distan-c from Apia, but when the steamer le't the police had not identified the author of the crime. The man Inul been attack ed with an axe, and his body was horribly mutilated. During the morning on which the man was kiHed all the other coolies employed on the plantation were in Apia, having been summoned there as witnesses in a court ease, so that it is considered that the prospective absence of the murdered man's usual companions was taken into consideration by the author of the crime. News was also received by the Tofua that a murder was committed on the morning of July 8 by an Indian at Somabula, in the Fiji group. The victim, a girl of fifteen years, was shot, and the murderer then paraded the neighborhood with a plentiful supply of ammunition. A .party of police left Suva immediately for the scene of the crime, and it was afterwards learned that the Indian had been shot.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1915, Page 6
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203NEWS FROM THE ISLANDS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1915, Page 6
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