OMAHA MURDER CASE
VERDICT OF MAN SLAUGHTER.
(BIT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION'.) Wellington', I'Viday. The Crown prosecutor said no doubt Turanga's party wore wrong: in going on tho land and behaving as they did, hut that was no provocation for such a murderous attack. Natives could not be allowed t;i take the law in their own hands. The jury returned at 2.30 with * verdict of manslaughter and recommended the prisoner to mercy. Tho Chief Justice passed a sentence of ten years' penal servitude.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2701, 2 November 1889, Page 2
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81OMAHA MURDER CASE Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2701, 2 November 1889, Page 2
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