NORTHERN MURDER CASE.
TAHI KARA ON TRIAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night, The trial was begun at the Supreme Court to-day of the young Maori Tahi Kake, charged with the murder of John Freeman, an aged gumdigger, at Puhipuhi, in the Whangarei district, on or about April sth. The Crown Prosecutor (Mr Tole) traversed the details that have already received publicity. Freeman, be said, went out to his work with his kit of tools on the morning of April sth", and was followed by a dog belonging to the whare. The dog returned in four days, but Freeman was never seen alive again. Ha bad been missing for some weeks, when suspicion ~fell on Tahi Kaka, who was making statements of spending money freely, though previously he was short, of cash. Later on Kaka admitted that he had followed •Freeman up on the morning of April sth, and finding out that he had money in his oocket, demanded the same. A scuffle ensued, and the accused hit the old gumdigger over the head with a stick and caused his death.
The evidence had not concluded when the Court adjourned till to-day morrow.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10251, 30 May 1911, Page 5
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193NORTHERN MURDER CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10251, 30 May 1911, Page 5
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