TWO MURDERS
REPORTED FROM THE ISLANDS.
(BY TBLEonAPU.— SPECIAL TO THE POST.) AUCKLAND, This Day. News of murders in Samoa was brought by passengers on the Tofua, which arrived at Auckland yesterday. ' The victim in one case was a coolie employed on a plantation some 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 axe, and the body was horribly mutilated. Some assistance is afforded to the police in the investigations by the probability that the crime was committed by some one well acquainted with the affairs of the plantation. 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 author of the crime. An Indian girl, about fifteen years of age, was shot on one of the islands in the Fiji group by a male Indian, who was himself shot later during pursuit by the police.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 16, 19 July 1915, Page 6
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194TWO MURDERS Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 16, 19 July 1915, Page 6
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