MURDER CHARGE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 128, 2 June 1920, Page 4

MURDER CHARGE.

MAOIU BBFPKE IHE COURT.

SOME KEOTOIAB FEATCHES

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AUCKLAND, 'June 2. Tlie ehaxge ofl murder against the Maori Hona Herewini, otherwise; 31'ona Sslwyn^ hps commenced at the Supreme: (joiirt lief ore Mr Justice Chapifiaa. ' . , Mr J. A. Tole, inopening the -cafe, ■saidf thtit after the hotel at Awamii closed' some Maoris remained in the stable yard, and the prisoner and HeiMi Hhl (the deceased) began to fight and were separated. The prisoner went to pet his horse, and |Hui walked towards the stable ga.te, ! and the Crown case was that as the prisoner rode past Hui he dealt him 'a severe and fatal blow on the head. i'ihe Maoris, after unsuccessfully trying to revive him, went aw'a.y, and the extraordinary feature of the case ■was that the injured man seems to have been left lying in the yard. Another mysterous fact was the removal of tho body, which was found, after throe or four days' search, a1 quarter of a mile away in a drain. Prior to the Court adjourning-the Crown Prosecutor said that lie wished to, reduce the ehirge to one of manslaughter, *and the judge concurred.