MURDER AND SUICIDE
ANOTHER MAORI TRAGEDY HUSBAND KILLS WIFE [per press association.] GISBORNE, November 17. A shocking affair occurred at Tokoi maru Pay at 7,45 this morning. A Maori, Barlow Karauria, murdered his wife, Hane Pakn, and committed ; suicide by cutting his throat. I Karauria, a labourer and watersider, lived with his wife and a num1 her of relatives in a small house ; close to Tokomaru Bay Police StaI tion. Early this morning, the other Natives went out to plant kumeras, and on the return of some of them to the house, it was found that Karauria. had stabbed his wife in several places with a large butcher’s-knife, and then cut this throat with the sama weapon. Mrs Karauria was dead when the relatives returned, and the murderer was dying. A doctor was summoned from Tepuia Springs, eight miles distant, but. Karauria died before he arrived. It is believed that Karauria had been mentally deranged for some time. Mrs Karauria had two children.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 November 1934, Page 7
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