ISLAND NEWS.
TWO MURDERS REPORTED
(Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, this day
News of a murder in Samoa was brought by passengers on the steamer Tofua, which arrived m Auckland yesterday. The victim was a coolie employed on a plantation some distance from Apia, but when the steamer left the police had not identified the author of the crime. The man had been attacked with an axe and his body was horribly mutilated. During the morning on which the man was killed all the other coolies employed on the plantation were in Apia, having been summoned there as witnesses in a court case, so that it is considered that protestive absence of the murdered man's usual companions was taken into .consideration by the author of the crime.
News was also received by the Tofua that a murder was committed on the morning of July 8, by an Indian at Somahula, in the Fiji group. . The victim was a girl of about fifteen years of ag e who was shot. The murderer then paraded the neighbourhood with a plentiful supply of ammunition. A party of police left Suva immediately for the scene of the crime, and it was afterwards learned that the Indian had been shot.
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Northern Advocate, 19 July 1915, Page 2
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