FIVE WOMEN MURDERED.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SUVA, July 28. During tho months of March and June at Navua throe bodies of Indian women were discovered buried in shallow graves and with their limbs protruding. At the subsequent police investigation an Indian man named Jiawan, of Rcwa, confessed to the murders of five women and the theft of jewellery. He also showed the graves of the last two murdered at Rewa a fortnight ago. These crimes were previously unknown.
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Evening Star, Issue 14631, 29 July 1911, Page 5
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