MURDER OF A GUMDIGGER.
MAORI'S REVOLTING CRIME.
[per press association.]
Whangarei, April 20.
A revolting crime committed in the depths of the Puhipuhi State forest has been revealed.
> Kake, a native youth, aged 18, i was arrested at Kaikohe, on Tuesday, on the charge of murdering John Freeman, a European gumdigger with whom Kake resided in a whare. Suspicion fell on Kake by his prodigal spending of money, and because Freeman had not been seen for ten days. Kake was brought down to Whakapara, the nearest station to Puhipuhi, this morning, where he was met by the! police sergeant and accused of the| crime. He confessed to the ser-| geant that he hit Freeman aver; the head with a heavy wooden bludgeon. k : Hed him, and robbed i I ’ ir *4' £•’rr-a'is. d by the sale of j g.im. Hs- tilt ) d.agged the corpse; into a secluded place and buried it. j He offered to show the burial place, ! The police with their captive im-' mediately set out for the scene of the crime, and will return to Whangarei to-night or to-morrow’ with the accused and the body of: his victim.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 107, 20 April 1911, Page 1
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