FARMER’S DEATH
MAORI TRIED FOR MURDER. HEARING CONTINUED. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, May 9. The trial of a Maori youth, Riwi Manuel, aged 17, on a charge of murdering Waiti Robson, a farmer, was continued to-day, when Robsons wife gave evidence. She said the accused had been living with them for two years, milking cows and doing other farm work. There had been quarrels between the accused and her husband, who had twice given him hidings, the first for coming home drunk and the second, about five days before the shooting for throwing a stone at a child. She was awakened about six in the morning by a scream from her husband, who said his stomach was bursting. She saw blood and then helped him on to the floor. She heard the accused in the kitchen and called him to help. He was wearing dungarees and a white shirt. The gun produced in Court belonged to her husband and was kept under the bed.
The hearing was continued to-night. Sixteen more Crown witnesses were heard and the case was not finished.
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Southland Times, Issue 22011, 10 May 1933, Page 13
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