Second Edition AWAHURI SENSATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 12, 11 June 1926, Page 6

Second Edition AWAHURI SENSATION.

v A V! ATTACK. • s •: '■' '■- t Per Press Association. §g :. .P N.... June 11J ,r Arising out "of a sensation at Awaf :r Iraii oh' the" night 'of February lOtb. f'\ ■'■■ IJrnest Paiwha Sutnerlaud/Va half- ;>;'■■ caste.. Maori, was charged at the Polka g$ Oonrt with attempting: to kill his wife Jp| Puangjmaua, Sutherland„ wilfully T?"' setting fire to the dwelling.iouse oi'hi s ■i-i'Ti father-Hi-law. Richard- Drammond, pi-!' and...with assaulting his mother-in-law, jjjifv,. bodily liarnx j|| Senior Detective Quirke, for ... the w-'-ppJic©,' said Mrs Sutherland had been f?'C- cofitoinpitatrna separation from her ||*jH husband and proceedings were to have 'taken in,.the.Feildh\g Court on my the day ,foU6wing' : t;he alleged assault., |Sf". About,:midnight' on. February 10th jS* ,Mrs.Soibiierland;; with her mother and jjfi?' "father! with whom she was , living, was awakened bv a. noise and: flames. ;|;i> 'As ' a 'i"esuifc of the. injuries received S"*; Mi-s Sutherland, was. admitted to the *;t ; . ! a Patmerston ■ Hospital on the> followi n s ! s v; and there until May m\ :29th.. /Even now she was not yet pro-pej-ly well. as p re- ;■■;.., .suit' of hty 'irt|,i.u3o§, hadj,:been.-in .bos-.-|p pital a littje fiiyer a fortnight, Ttier f?? n case wa£)"rriiite'a simple one—accused ( $S haid head....and-.had resorted to : i& vioilence,' *•" . .£."'."" ~'. , $H ■.■■ J t Banghiaua Sutherland gave . evi~?z dehce !%as:-,iSutherland was. living ?^.aparflrom ; lier':iri a hut a mile from P. .her father's home. '■_ At, midnight she ■*'j hear'd a noise outside her father's ■'-V-'.; jV-V ';ter* i "hOul r^h^ , ;*^rbaf'hMi' ii - ! h%'* !i; str uek ■ :*' -, h.er gieveral. blows with abhint instruVment. ; TJib then mside.off..into the .ijight.; While in- hosnital witness • re''.ceiyecUa. letter from her; husband, askV "conciliation. . Richard Drumimand said that .bem« awakened he' went outside and found sacks and old clothes burning under the house. On, ...pulling .them out struck witness with a '''rtairdeh, ; hoe> '; .■. '■'<-'■'■■-., M Later hjs .wife appealed'. With blood Streaming from, her face Sutherland ''' also poditited IsbmcUiihjr at,witness and threateinetlt .to .shoot, "'him. - Witness charged;, accused, : who hnaUy.'.fclM tlie' house was .steadily'faining-and was sown, razed t\ie ,ssi'Oundv--. ~ . '•'... -.^, Thft>. police gave evidence '■ i that ac-. • -cus'ed placing .burning sacks yhixder tjij! buiMlug; biit.deniedi he..m'.teiiciad doinK.ariv.-KS'TnK.-v...'■' jjjji. -.- , , : ".'' Accused.'-pleaded ,not giulty; and re- ' .serye4h'Ms^e f eace;.;.: -'■;'"'•'• • • ( .'.'H.e^inK.-i^ : ,pr^^4'- D E ; - ; ojF;*bfi! l cbarge Vol aiid.the" 1 will " J ,lo,heard;tii ;,.'