MURDER CHARGE
NATIVE ARRESTED
Waiiganui,. March 26. As a result of a Maori, Sam Hauroa, aged 50, being found dead outside the door of his house at Opaku some eight or nine miles, from Patea, anotuej: Native, Jack JS'gapaki, aged 53, appeared in the Magistrate's Court to-day and was charged with murder. 'He was remanded to appear at Wellington on April 4, when a further remand to Patea will probably be made. On Monday evening as he was'finishing milking operations in a_ cowslie'i on his farm,. Turoa Hauroa, a young Maori, aged 15, heard angry words coming from near a whare where ho knew his father, Sam, Hauroa, and his uncle, Jack Ngapaki, to be. When bo heard the'argument culminate in groans five minutes later, Turoa ran to-the whare, where he found his father lying on his face outside at the buck. Turoa informed a neighbouring Native, who rang the police. '
When Constable'Selly arrived at the whare and found Hauroa dead he arrested Ngapaki and brought him to Patea. A search of the locality where Hauroa lived disclosed- a short giece of blood-stained wood, probably part of the shaft of a gig, and it is believed that that was used as a weapon.
MURDER CHARGE
Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 73, 27 March 1935, Page 9
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