THE HUKATERE WIFE MURDER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 194, 9 August 1895, Page 2

THE HUKATERE WIFE MURDER.

* aerest of the accußed. sensational~"atiempt to ESUAPE, [UNITED PBBBB ASSOCIATION.] Wangantji, August 6. Wire Haaliu Koroai, the halfcaste who is charged with having murdered his wife at Hukatere, near Patea, on Frida,» last, was arrested by Waitotara Natives on Monday last. He was brought up at the Waverley Court this morning, and remanded to be tided at Patea on Friday next for wilful murder. He was accordingly put on the train for Wanganui, where he was to await Ms trial. On the journey, on the train, emerging from the Kai-Iwi tunnel, the constable m charge saw that the prisoner had cut his throat with a butcher's sheath knife. He immediately took the weapon from him, and went out on to the carriage platform to obtain the assistance of the guard. The man took advantage of his absence to pull down and bound through the carriage window. The constable saw him, but was too late to stop him. The prisoner was apparently not hurt by the fall, and jumped up and ran back towards Kai-Iwi. The constable went back from the next station and walked through to Kai-Iwi, where he found the man outside a hotel. He took him m charge, and brought him into the Wanganui Hospital to -night m a buggy, where the wound was stitched. 80 far as oan be ascertained the man is likely to recover.