MAORI WOMAN’S DEATH
i HUSBAND CHARGED WITH MURDER ‘ GISBORNE, This Day. j Following the death in the Te Puia . Hospital on Saturday of a 32-year-old Maori woman. Matekina Grace, of , Tuparoa, her husband, Dave Grace, 42 \ years of age. also a Maori, was arrested ? this morning and charged with the , murder of his wife. He appeared sub- > sequently before the court at Ruatoria i and on the application of the police was ? remanded. Mrs Grace was admitted to hospital / on Thursday night in an unconscious s condition, resulting from injuries which s are understood to include a fracture - of the skull. She never recovered } consciousness and succumbed early on i. Saturday morning. No information is r available regarding events leading to ) the incident in which the woman re- ■ ceived her injuries.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 13 December 1938, Page 6
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