THE NORTHERN MURDER.
AN INDIFFERENT PRISONER
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WHANGAREI. Last Night. Further details of the Puhipuhi murder are now to hand. With Taki Kaks. in close custody, the police travelled into the heart of the bush over precipitous tracks to a deep gully, down Which Kaka confessed having thrown the body after murdering Freeman with a stick on the ridge above while the victim was engaged gum-digging. Tho murder occurred on the oth inst. Kaka showed no concern, and ofibred to help the police in their gruesome duties. The remains were placed on an impoverised stretcher and conveyed to Hikurangi, and thence into Whangarei by train. The prisoner was brought down at the same time. The inquest opens to-day, and will probably be adjourned till Monday 'tending the presence of important witnesses.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10220, 22 April 1911, Page 5
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133THE NORTHERN MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10220, 22 April 1911, Page 5
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