THE WAIAPU MURDER.
Further particulars are to hand concerning the murder at Waiapu. It appears that rke native Wiremu Turie and his wife Mere Kepa had some angry words between them, because aha refused to go with her husband to Hick's Bay. She agreed, however, tv go to Hotipo, and they left Taurapu for there on foMt. Turie loaded his gun beforo atarting ? telling his wife that he might get a pheasant on the way. He carried his child eiE(ht months' old on his back, and as aoon as they got out of sight of Taurapu a shot was heard from the direction they had taken, but no notice was taken of the incident. Aboul one o'clock on the same day the woman was found with nearly the whole of the left side of her head shot away, and the child was found some distance off uninjured, but no trace of tho man could be discovered. On Friday it was ascertained that besides the shot wound there was a large bruise on the head as if deceased had been struck with the stock of a gun. This left little doubt that the woman had been barbarously murdered.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5225, 18 July 1888, Page 2
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197THE WAIAPU MURDER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5225, 18 July 1888, Page 2
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