SUPREME COURT
(United Pbess Association.) HAMILTON, Sept. 6. The Grand Jury returned a true bill in the case of Toete -Jlainuku, a ttaTOtongan native, charged "With the/murder of Kenneth Livingstone, and the attempted murder of Charles McFarlane, shepherds at a lonely bush station nsar 'Mangap.ehi, in the King Country, early '' iix "July'. When the case was mentioned "before Mr Justice Cooper to-day, Dr Beattie, in charge of the Avondale Mental Hospital, said that Kainuku, who is under ' detention there, was suffering from an acute attack of mania', and was danger* ously homicidal. He was unfit to travel, and it would be dangerous to allow him out in life present condition. The mania might subside in a few weeks. The trial of Kairiuku was therefore postponed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 7 September 1916, Page 5
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