THE KERIKERI TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1917, Page 4

THE KERIKERI TRAGEDY.

•EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. ' By Telegraph.—Press Association, /»•»• <Mw'm» M tmrSS uermk gave evidence that be had made examination of tie 'fody and wai convinced that deatii was cftU&fd' by drowning. • Tho cvidepoa of various rtrltijjsjse* snowed -that the little gu*l wm fi6ei\ coming Home from school with a Miwrl bay, Richard Keihana, and a European boy, Edward Claude Gibbons. They wero. seen going to the bank of the Rerikeri creek. Afterwards both 'boys were sen going home alone. Th# 'gfrPv oteihe9 we'ie fonid on- the- bank, aid b&r naked body was recovered next day. It fas proved that the girl could not undress herself. Gibbons made & to the effect that Reßiani ! fliidregß«t jthe girl and ,put her in the water. Reibana's etatemeiif was tlEt tlrrgtrt"Was;(jn| l th6 bank of the creek naked, when he Saw her, that she fell ,in, The vertlict will be given to-morrow. , ' The little victim was agedOj'tbtf Soy* being aged 8 and -7 respectively, ;