AN INDIAN TRAGEDY
FA ITHLESB WIFE'S FATE. L 0 ulted Press Association— -By Electric Telegraph.—Copy right,. J (Received 9.15 a.in,) DELHI, -March 22. Sensitiveness over the honour ol the women folk ended in a terrible tragedy. when a woman, who had deserted her husband, was murdered, together with Iter son and a new horn baby, in the Larknna district. The woman left her husband and lived with a man of another tribe for six mouths. When the husband t-rm ml her, he brought her hack to his house. Tile men of the .lanriaiia tribe, which is the tril>e of the husband, demanded that the husband divone her. This he refused to do. and they hacked the woman to pieces.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1931, Page 6
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119AN INDIAN TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1931, Page 6
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