CHARGE OF MURDER
DEATH OF MRS JOHNSON
TRIAL OF GEORGE RAMEKA
AUCKLAND, August 3. The trial of Pahara Rameka Kere (George Rameka), aged 39, on a charge of murdering Gwendoline Alice Johnson on the morning of June 24, was opened to-day in the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Smith and a jury. The Crown Prosecutor (Mr Meredith) and Mr M'Carthy conducted the case, and Mr Noble appeared for the prisoner.
Mr Meredith, in his opening address, traversed the facts brought out at the lower court hearing. He said that Mrs Johnson and her daughter (Queenie Rose Lawrence) passed as sisters. Acquaintance sprang up at a dance between the accused and Mrs Johnson. Later, when she was ill, he frequently visited her, and appeared to become infatuated. Mr Meredith said the Grown would submit that a letter written by the accused would show that he had in his mind some injury to Mrs Johnson, to be followed by suicide. Regarding any suggestion of provocation, Mr Meredith said there was no provocation to justify
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Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 72
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