BRUTAL MURDER.
SAMOAN TRAGEDY. VICTIM A NIUE ISLANDER ATTACKED ON PLANTATION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) APIA, October 23. On Saturday afternoon, October 21, a Niue Islander named Foupa, employed as labour foreman by the Apia Stevedoring Company, was mysteriously murdered while working on his taro
plantation just off the Siumu Road, eouth of Vailinia, near Apia. The death was caused by severe knife injuries on the neck. The murdered man vae working by himeelf on his taro patch. Xo motive for the murder is known. The Apia police are investigating. This is the first murder for many years that has occurred in the territory.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 257, 31 October 1939, Page 5
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