DEATH OF HINDU
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
EVIDENCE BY MAORIS
(By Teiegrapb—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day. The hearing of the charge of manslaughter of the Hindu Rama Khushal against the Maori labourer John Kite was continued at the Huntly Police Court yesterday. Evidence was given by a number of Maori witnesses through an interpreter.' They told of hearing cries for help from the direction of the dead man's whare and that the accused had visited the whare to purchase liquor. One said that on Sunday he noticed blood marks on the accused's clothes. The deceased was frail and not in good health. His body lay 45 yards, from the whare with the face severely injured and partially submerged in the swamp.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 5, 5 July 1940, Page 9
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