COOLIES MURDERED.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, July 19. News of a murder in Samoa was brought by the passenger-* on the steamer Tofua. which arrived in Auckland yesterday. The victim wa* a coolie employed on a plantation somo distance from Apia, but when the steamer left the police had not identified the author of the crime. The man had been attacked with an axo, and.his body was horribly mutilated.. During the morning on which the man was killed all the other coolies employed on the plantation were in Apia, having been summoned there as witnesses in a Court case, so that it is considered that the prospective absence of the murdered man's usual companions was taken into consideration by the murderer. News was also received by the Tofua that a murder was committed on the morning of July Bth by an Indian at Somalulu, in tho Fiji group, when the victim, a girl of about fifteen years of age, was 6hot. The murderer then paraded the neighbourhood with a plentiful supply of ammunition. A party of police left Suva immediately for the ecene of'the crime, and it was afterwards learned that the Indian had been shot.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15335, 20 July 1915, Page 2
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196COOLIES MURDERED. Press, Volume LI, Issue 15335, 20 July 1915, Page 2
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