TRAGEDY AT OREORE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 154, 30 June 1913, Page 5

TRAGEDY AT OREORE.

TWO MURDERS ALLEGED. MAORI WOMAN KILLED. SISTER'S TERRIBLE REVENGE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WANGANTI, Sunday. Information has reached Wanganui uf a sensational affair at Oreore in which a ilaori woman is alleged to have been murdered, and the man who killed her. himself to have been killed. It appears that a man named Joe Graham had for some time been living witli a Maori woman named Hirita Tenata.

They fell out on Friday, and Graham left intending to go to a neighbours place. Yesterday, Hirita's aunt and sister saw liim return with his swag as if going to Raetihi. Some time afterwards they heard a shot from the direction of the house in wnich Graham lived, so thuy went over. They found Graham in the bedroom, and on their going in he endeavoured to hide the dead body of his companion by standing between it and the intruders. Graham had shot Hirita with a pea rifle. Roused to fury at the sight, deceased's sister took up a heavy crosscut saw. and savagely attacked Graham, inflicting frightful injuries on his hen.d. This was abr'iit half-past two on Saturday afternoon. On rf*'."f*ipt or t nf* iniormn tion oi the tragedy Constable Mcßae and a doctor left Rnetihi for the scene, but within in or is minutes of their arrival Graham died, without being able to give nn account of ti:e affair. An inqu'.tt will he opened at OhnktMe on Monday, but will probably be ndjouroed. The woman will appear ltefore the Court at Raetihi. where a sitting i= to lie held sonn.