THE HUKATERE TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2582, 7 August 1895, Page 2

THE HUKATERE TRAGEDY.

ARREST OP THE ACCUSED'. SENSATIONAL ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. . By fsla^rnph. —Press Association. Wanganui, August 0. Wire Kaahu Koroai, the half-caste who is charged with having murdered ‘ his wife at Hukatore, near Patea, on Friday last, was arrested by Waitotara Natives on Monday last. He -was brought up at the Waverley Court this morning and remanded to be tried at Patea on Friday next for wilful murder, j , . , He was accordingly plit 06 the tram fof Wail«hlhltii WhOto lib ffnS to ilwait his trial. On\ho jouyiioy, oh the train emerging front the KaMwi tuittiol; tliO bohstablo ih chatoe si« thill the pritonaf hid but ha tlitoit with a butcher’s sheath knito; Hb immediately took, the weapon trom hiqi; and weht ' .on lo the carriage platform to obtain the assistant© bf the guatd. , The man took adViitige Of Jus absence to pull ,'ddwji . .and. • hbiiiid through the mvrift'go.window., Tliq constable saw him, but was too late to stop him. . • ■ The prisoner was apparently not hurt by the fall, and jumped up and ran back towards Kai-Iwi. ; The constable went back from the next station and walked through to Kai-Iwi, where he found the man outside a hotel. Ho took him in charge, and brought him into the Wanganui Hospital tojnjreM lh ft buggy, where tlib fVound>'is u .So. far r hd ascortalnoa the man is likely to re'doveri. _ ,