"WAS MURDERED."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 10

"WAS MURDERED."

YOUNG MAORI'S FATE.

FOUND LYING ON ROAD

VERDICT AT INQUEST. (By T>lp?raph.— Own r.>rrositr.nilont.) PI'KKKOHK. TlmiMlHy. "T flni Hot in a ]>u-iiti'>ii to sav what lia|>|)i-iii>il or why it lia|i|i"iioil: all I know is thai tln-re i- nn ilmilii thai tliiman was iiiiiiilciiml." This Htuti'iiK-nt "a* iiiailc I>y tincoroner. Mr. ('. K. Lnwrit , . when tlie inquest into the death of (Jeorjie Kahi \\»* <oncluilc<l today. Kahi. n yiiiin« full hlooded Maori, 24 ycai>i of was found on tinroad at Vr Kauwhata on .laniiary 2H \-,\-t. oufforiiiff from fievere hpa<l injuries. A l>lood*taincd wonden liatten was found near at hand. Kahi was taken to the WVkato Hospital at Hamilton, where he died on February 10.

\'.\ iileiiiM' was ir'nen by Kalii"* brother. Henry Kfllli, gardener, of I'likckollc. vvliU-l'i -linuTi] that deceased had been ii member of a party which had «one to a gathering at Te Kainvhata to ooiurnemorate Hie anniversary of tho death of a fellow nativeVi wife. Witness missed his brother during the pvi>iiin«r. but could not find him. Deceased had been wpm by H'itlio*!*' wife in company with anotlier native during tlip evenin^ , up the ro.id. He was siilisc(|iifiitl', lolllid in a seriously injured condition by a la\i driver. William Alexaudei \Vats4iii. and taken by.him to lio.-pi.al.

1 , . .(. Xal.lcr. of Auckland, -aid that he hail intervii-« <-d deceased in hospital, l«ut r-mild pain no inforuiat ion from him. "This cas<- is causing us a lot of difficulty, as there Imvc been a lot of contradictory statements," lie added.

Tin- cormier found that deceased had died at Hie Waikato Hospital on February IC. following laceration of the brain. ciiiiM'd liv injuries inflicted by some l>eii-<)ii or person.*.