THE MAKARAKA MURDER.
man confessed to crime. (PSESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GISBOKNE, January 31 (1.30 a.m.? The polieo last night left for Matewni (forty-wen miles from Gisbornc). Inspector Hutton and Detective McLgoc! ai rested a man named Uoboi't Herbert Scott, thirty-throe years of age, 011 a farm between Matnwai and iVlotu. In a statement to the polic© Scott admitted the outrage and murder of the girl Murray. Tho police and the prisoner returned to Gisborno at 1.30 a.m. [Earlier references to tho crime ■w ill be found ca page 10.}
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 9
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