MURDERS AT THE ISLANDS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13824, 20 July 1915, Page 6

MURDERS AT THE ISLANDS.

[United Press Association.]

Auckland, July 19

News of the murder of '■*> coolie employed on a plantation in Samoa has been received He had been attacked with an axe, and his body horribly nrutiJated. The author of tho crime is unknown. News has also been recowed <>t another murder on July Bth,by an I&dnui at Somabula. in the Hji Group, lhe victim was a girl about I'j yfcars old. She was shot, and the ruurdercr tuov paraded the neighbourhood . with a plentiful supply of ammunition. A party of police loft Suva, tor lhe scene of tho crimo. and afterwards learneu that tho Indian had been .shot.