THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A MAORI WOMAN.
[By TELEGRAPH.—press ASSOCIATION.] Hawkra, Tuesday. The inquest on the body of the native woman supposed to have been murdered concluded thi3 afternoon without any satisfactory result. The medical men reaffirmed the evidence of extensive injuries on the body of the deceased woman, which could only have been caused during life by violence intentionally used, while the relations of the murdered woman, including the mother and sister, declared they bad attended her during her sickness and prepared her body for burial' and were positive no injuries such as those described bad been sustained. The theory to account for the fracture of the skull was that it had been injured by a fall during childhood, but the medical evidence scouted the idea. The police assert that there was a combination to prevent evidence being obtained. The jury returned a verdict, "That deceased died by violence, but there was no evidence to show by whom the violence was administered."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7915, 6 April 1887, Page 5
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