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REQUIRED THE; DEATH', OF A,', MAN: MURDERER-HANGED. BY TELKGBAPH—I'IiKSS ASSOCIATION"—COPYRIGHT Mdjbourrio, March 12. A report by tho. Administrator of Papua (New Guinea) contains tho • record of ;a curious incidont. , 'V/'.V,: t ] . A European named /Weaver was murdered near Fort Moresby.' The murdorers had been on good terms \«mi ; Veuver. Ouo 01 inom built a house and wished to/paint it>in a certain manner, but. Native-custom forbade him doing so unless lto previously tilled!a man. Thereupon he killed Weaver, -and afterwards tried to charm him back to life'. Tho murderer was hanged, and his accomplices were imprisoned. ' ....
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 145, 13 March 1908, Page 7
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97NATIVE CUSTOM. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 145, 13 March 1908, Page 7
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