TRIAL FOR MURDER.
CHARGE AGAINST A MAORI. FURTHER EVIDENCE HEARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night. At the Supreme Court the trial was continued to-day of Rutene Topi on a charge of the murder of Zambueca at the Motu river early on the afternoon of November 4. Charlotte Kooper, housekeeper at Saxby’s, deposed that accused had been there between four and five in the afternoon. His brother Peeti was there on the tenth. Witness overheard a telephone conversation from the police at Opotiki which referred to number six cartridges. Peeti told her "my cartridges are number five.” Victoria Milner, residing near Omaio, stated that in November last she had been engaged to accused and they were to have been married at the end of that month. Accused paid her a visit on November 5.
To counsel for accused: She came from the East Coast, but did not know if Zambueca had a reputation for gambling, nor that he had been mixed up in a row with another Asiatic. The trial is proceeding.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1922, Page 5
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172TRIAL FOR MURDER. Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1922, Page 5
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