ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1313, 27 November 1880, Page 2

ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Wellington, Last Night. A tebeibliß murder was perpetrated a short distance from Opunake yesterday afternoon, the victim being Mws Dobie, flister-in-law to Major Goring. The following telegram has been received from Lieut.Colonel Roberts, the officer commanding the Constabulary force: — "Miss Dobie went out for a walk yesterday afternoon, and was found murdered about a mile and a half north of Opunake, on the main lino of road. A man named Walter Stannard, from Hawera, has been arrested. Blood was found on his hat, clothes, and boots, which he explains was caused by a cut from his horse's noae. A piece of his bridle was found at the place this morning, and a pair of ragged moleskin trousers covered with blood, about six feet from where the body was found. — J. M. Roberts, Lieut.-Colonel." Later intelligence is that the unfortunate young lady was outraged before death. Her head was nearly severed from her body. She was about 20 years of age, and came to the colony recently with her mother and sister, who has since been married to Major Goring. Miss Dobie, with her mother, were about to proceed to England. She had been on a visit to her sifter at the camp, Cape Egmont, where Major Goring was stationed. She had been sketching all pat is of the country, even at Fanhaka, where she had been most kindly treated by Te Whiti and the natives.