TIE HUKATERE TRAGEDY.
SENSATIONAL ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.
Bji Telegraph—Press Association. Wanoasui, Tuesday. t j)Yiro Kaahu Koroai, tho half■b who is charged with haying mrderod his wife at Hukatere, was >ut ou tho train for Wanganui, vhcro ho was to await his trial. On the journey, 011 tho train emerging from the Kai-Iwi tunnel, tho constablo in charge saw that tho /prisoner had cut his throat with a butcher's sheath knife, Ho immediately took tho weapon from him and went on the carriage platform to obtain tho assistance of the guard. Tho man took advantage of his absence to pull down and bound through tho carriage window. Tho jconstablo saw him, but was too late ■lO stop him, i Tho prisoner was apparently not hurt by the fall, and jnnSped up and ran back towards Kai-lui. Tho constable went back from the next station and walked 1 through to Kai-Iwi, where ho fouwd the man outside a hotel. ! He took him in charge, and brought him into the Waiigamii Hospital to-night 111 a baggy, whore % wound was stitched. Ak far ns can be ascertained, the Kn is likely to recover.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5097, 7 August 1895, Page 3
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189TIE HUKATERE TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5097, 7 August 1895, Page 3
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