ALLEGED WIFE MUEDER BY A NATIVE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2554, 22 March 1887, Page 2

ALLEGED WIFE MUEDER BY A NATIVE.

v United Press Association.;. . -,, . Hawera, March 20/ i _ A,native named Te .Pehi Nero, 'residing at Otakeho, has been aiTested under circumstances which point to homicide. Eecsntlyh'e Wag' ai'Parihaka, and it is alleged 'that havingtaken his wife in adultery, he thrashed 'her very severely—so severely that. a i species of" paralysis set ini Ihe-was removed to a native hospital it Eeb|' and thence to Pihama;' wK'ere. sHasubsequeritty died one day /.lasH wee)!.. Subsequently'to her de'ath' a nato've .reported that the woman's neck had -faepn broken by Te .Pehi is ment, for, herunfaithfuln&, and state!■ that/he had 'put; her neck- .a'cross.iis; knee and bent it until it broke.. When ths police'commenced an enquiry the natives 'became very reticent, butSufficient information was obtained to enable the police to arrest the man. The.nafiyes did not:oppose iilie arrest, ■but said it was a matter for: ffo Whiti to deal \rith, and talked of obstructing 'the police; but after Eama, a chief of : the Otakeh(s kainga', had; been warned by Sergeant' Anderson ; of the conse.'

quences of interfering with the police, the arrest .was made, land tlie prisoner islodged in the Manaia look-up. The prisoner and his wife.came from the Waikattw,. ;■ •/:■'' .'.'' ....-.'. s ' ' ■ March2l, ". ' "Th'e.EesMent.Magistrateand Inspector tardy have gone to Otakehore the alleged murder case. The body will be exhumed, and to-Squest' held to•morrow-. '7