MAORI CHARGED WITH MURDER
DEATH OF INDIAN NEAR HUNTLY (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 28. The police have arrested a Maori farm hand, John Kite, single, aged 23, of Renown, about 10 miles from Huntly, and charged him with the murder of Rama Khushal, a middle-aged Indian. labourer, who was found dead in a swamp on the banks of the Waikato river at Huntly West late in the afternoon of May 18. Kite will appear before a Magistrate in the Auckland Police Court tomorrow. Kite was arrested this afternoon by Detective Sergeant Nalder, who had had charge of the case since it was opened, and Detective-Sergeant Trethewey. When Khushal’s body was discovered by a young man, eight of his teeth were missing and there were injuries to his head. The teeth were subsequently found a short distance away from the swamp, and about 50 feet away investigating officers saw three patches of congealed blood as well as some marks suggestive of a struggle. Khushal had lived a lonely life in a corrugated iron shack close to the river bank two miles from the Huntly township. He had done little work for some time before his death
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Southland Times, Issue 24138, 29 May 1940, Page 8
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