SAMOAN’S DEATH
CORPORAL ACQUITTED FIRING WAS JUSTIFIED (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Ap.i-a, March 10. Lance-Corporal Ricketts to-day was acquitted by a court of four assessors of the charge of manslaughter relative to the death of the Samoan M<>lia, who was shot by Ricketts during an affray with the police on January 22 and died on January 2- in Apia hospital. The .court finding was )hat R icketts was justified in firing at Molia for protection, believing that his life was in danger.”
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2507, 21 March 1930, Page 5
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