QUEER ACTIONS IN COURT OF MAORI CHARGED WITH MURDER AT ONEPUHI
WELLINGTON, Last Night.— | Charged with the murder of two women and a boy at Onepuhi on December 29, John Reremoana Tume, truck driver, aged 29 years, greeted the magistrate, Mr. J. S Hanna, with a loud "Hullo” in the Magistrate's Court today when he was remanded to appear at Marton on January 13. Accused told police constables that he wanted to take off his shoes and then broke into the strains of a wellknown modern song. While waiting with the constables in the back of the courtroom for the magistrate to appear, Tume, who wore a dead flower in the lapel of his pin stripe grey suit, kept up the motions ot smoking with a piece of wood, took off his shoes, wanted to take off his coat and frequently burst into song.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 January 1949, Page 4
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144QUEER ACTIONS IN COURT OF MAORI CHARGED WITH MURDER AT ONEPUHI Wanganui Chronicle, 7 January 1949, Page 4
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