MURDER CHARGE
ARREST OF MAORI
HUNTLY INDIAN’S FATE
BODY FOUND IN SWAMP
SIGNS OF STRUGGLE
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day
The police have arrested a Maori farm hand, John Kite, aged 23, single, of Renown, about 10 miles from Huntly, and charged him with flic murder of Rama Khushal, the middleaged Indian labourer who was found dead in a swamp on the banks of the Waikato River, Huntly West late in the afternoon of May 18.
Kite was arrested yesterday afternoon by Detective-Sergeant Nalder who had charge of the case since it opened, and Detective-Sergeant Trethewey
When Khushal's body was discovered by a young man eight of his teetli were missing and there were injuries to his head. The teeth were subsequently found a short distance away from the swamp and about 50ft. away the investigating officers saw three patches of congealed blood as well as some marks suggestive of a struggle. Khushal lived a lonely life in a corrugated iron shack close to the river bank, two miles from Huntly township. He had done little work for some time before his death .
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20259, 29 May 1940, Page 10
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184MURDER CHARGE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20259, 29 May 1940, Page 10
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