HORRIBLE MURDER ON THE EAST COAST.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 969, 7 September 1878, Page 2

HORRIBLE MURDER ON THE EAST COAST.

(From the ‘ Herald ’ Correspondent.) GISBORNE, Wednesday. A i aori . woman named Hirui te Whakamau, aged from -15 to 50, was murdered at Awamu on the 18th August. The woman was' drinking at a publichouse kept by Paratenc Ngata, and while drunk she was forcibly taken ftAvay by a

man, and criminally assaulted. Some time afterwards, another native, Peneanuri, committed a criminal assault on her. .- he was found next morning quite nude, and with her head and ribs broken Th. t She bore signs of having been f outraged. Major Ropata convened ||| rtiuaiir/a to decide whether the culprfra | should be tried laws. There was a*pfvg||pumb|jpw tr|| miianga. Paratenahgat|| depogga' thatf he locked two women j/>ne of j|§pin d§|| coased) in a room at M|iJWise.fs£)n , entering the room 'tills wra" missing. Mr Jacobs, the shoemaker, v said / saw Peti take deceased through a winTdow a horserdutwith her to Waiotauta creek. .Another witness deposed that he saw two men criminally,,... Magy deposed that he saw them ride lip on' a white * horse. ' ; She fell k oft'. %% he Maori criminally assaulted her. Witness did not see'her again /Mltfile'it morning;, when he found her clothes torn off and her ;body bearing) marks of violence, jit was decided, to hand one native to be'dealt with by the Europeans. An information has been laid. The other was adjudged an accessory. . '