MURDER IN MAORI VILLAGE.
WOMAN BATTERED TO DEATH BY HUSBAND. MURDERER'S FATAL LEAP. (PBKSS ASSOCIATION TELKGBAV ) WHANGAKEI, June 9. An atrocious murder was committed at "Waimea, a native settlement near Rawene, Hokianga, at about two o'clock on Saturday morning. A Maori named Ruki Pene '"battered his wife's skull with'a stone, and the victim expired" nine hours later. The first intimation was given to the settlement by the children'of the victim excitedly crying: "Father is murdering mother. Come quick." Natives found the woman in the whare in a dying condition, with the blood-stained stone alongside her. Meantime, Pen© had disappeared. A hue and cry was raised and, eventually, the natives located Pone in a tree. Finding t.liis futile, he leaped from the tree a distance of' thirty feet into a shallow creek, sustaining concussion, Pene was picked up unconscious and conveyed by train to Whangarei. He expired en route at "\Vhakapara. A post-mortem revealed fracture of the base of the skull. Jealousy is supposed to have been the motive of the crime. Tli© woman was aged about fifty years.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18095, 10 June 1924, Page 9
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