DEATH OF HINDU
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day,
Details concerning the death of an elderly Hindu, Rama Khushal, at Waahi, near Kuritly, on May 18, were brought before Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Huntly today, when a Maori farmhand, John Kite, aged 23, of Renown, faced a charge of murder, which was subsequently reduced to one of manslaughter. The case was a sequel to a mystery the first-known stage of which was the discovery of Khushal's battered body in a swamp by the son of a farmer of the district.
Twenty-four witnesses are to be called and the preliminary hearing is expected to occupy today and part of tomorrow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 13
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