MURDER CHARGE REDUCED.
A MAORI BEFORE THE COURT. f By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A charge of murdering Douglas Piripi, or Phillips, at Mokau (North Auckland), which was made against a Maori named Wiremu Peta, was reduced to one of manslaughter by the Grand Jury sitting at the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court. His Honor, iri reviewing the -sase, said the accused's story was that Piripi and he got into grips. Piripi attempted to throttle him, and during, the struggle the gun. which belonged to Piripi t went
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1920, Page 5
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90MURDER CHARGE REDUCED. Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1920, Page 5
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