TO-DAY'S EVIDENCE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The trial of Georgo Rameka on a chargo of murdering Mrs. Gwendoline Johnson is being continued to-day. Two doctors said that the wounds in the woman's body suggested they were the work of a man in a frenzy. The accused's movements and romarks after the tragedy were described as iv the evidence given in the Lower Court. Mrs. Kura Murphy, the accused's cousin, said that before he collapsed from the effects of poison he gave- her a letter for his father, saying, "My girl has turned me down after I gave her £2 and my last &7." He also said that was the end of his life, and "I havo killetl someone." Cross-exam-ined the witness said that Rameka was one of seventeen children, only two of whom were alive. She had heard that a relativo of the accused's in.Taranaki had killed a girl with a tennis racquet; and another relative in North Auckland had committed a serious offence. An interpreter said that the accused in the letter to- his father said he was tired of this life and made requests concerning the disposition of his body.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 7
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194TO-DAY'S EVIDENCE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 7
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