Exciting Scene at Gisborne
c Arresting a Maori
, By Telegraph,—Press Association. Gisborne, tills day. Wnitsi a native interpiotor named Bnl* neavia was away at the golf toumauiont at Dunedin bis residence w&s broken into and property worth i! 330 Btolon ) including a valuable collection of Miori curios, a violin over ono hundred years old, and cash totalling fifty pounds, Two attempts wero made to fite the dvolling. Boloeaycß received an anonymous letter stating that the perpetrator was on his way to Amerioa with the articles stolen, Last evening Detective Nixon arrested a young native named Tutahnia at tho residence of Tuta Nihobo, a looal fighting chief. The young man violently resisted arrrst, and in the furious melee which tookphce, the doteot've being single handed, the prisonor escaped, The police aro now scouring the country for him. The womon in tho house say that ho took poison with bim,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1145, 15 November 1904, Page 3
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