KING COUNTRY MURDER.
TRIAL OF KAINUKU. A QUESTION OF SANITY. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Tuesday. A true bill was returned at the Hamilton Supreme Court yesterday, in the case of Toete Kainuku, the Rarotongan charged with the murder of Kenneth I Livingstone, a shepherd, at a lonely busTi settlement some miles from Mangapeehi, in the King Country, on July 28 last; the attempted murder oj» Charles F. McFarlane; and with breaking, entering, and theft. . Mr. H. T. Gillies (Crown solicitor) asked permission to call Dr- R. M. Beattie, medical officer in charge at the Avondale Mental Hospital, who stated that Kainuku was at present an inmate of the asylum, suffering from an acute attack of mania, and wae dangerously .homicidal. In the doctor's opinion Kainuku was not fit to travel, either in his own interests or those of the public. The acute mania might subside in a few weeksJ time. In reply to his Honor, the doctor stated that it would foe dangerous to allow Kamuku out in his present condition. The trial will therefore be adjourned, possibly to the next of the Supreme Court at Auckland. Mr. G. P. Finlay was present, on accused's behalf.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 213, 6 September 1916, Page 8
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