TORERE TRAGEDY
CORONER. FINDS VICTIM wX MURDERED * DEAD MAN KNOWN AS WILLI 4\i ALBERT WILLIAMS. ‘ U (Special to the Times.) OPOTIKI, Jan. 19 Tiie adjourned inquest on the victim of tl/e Torere tragedy was concluded in the Opotiki Courthouse this evenng by the Coroner, Mr p Crawford. Dr. Forbes gave lengthy medical evidence as to the nature of the injury which was found to have been inflicted on deceased. He said that ho had come to the conclusion that death was due to shock and severe haemorrhage. The nasal wound at its deepest point would be very vascular and the blows had apparently driven the ethroid and other bones under the front lobe of the brain, causing excessive shock and bleeding. SucH injuries could not possibly been self-inflicted. ' Ve Replying to the Coroner, witness stated that he considered that the top of the head had been wounded first, the broken arm having been apparently held over the hear]. Detective McLeod, of Gisborne i n evidence, stated that, in December 2 1926, in company with Sergeant Ferguson and Constable Heaslip he went through the belongings of deceased and found a military charge and pay-hook, in the name of William Albert Williams, dated December 18, 1917. As the result of in quiries made by the police, war medals and certificates of service in the Expeditionary Forces, dated from 1916-17, issued to Rifleman William Albert Williams, had been found, an? there could be no doubt that doeopt ed, who bad been identified by the witness Charles Middleton as Jeremiah Williamson and who had known deceased for twenty-two years, wa3 identical with Winiam Aibert’' Williams. The Coroner’s verdict was that Jeremiah Williamson, also known aWilliam Albert Williams, came to his death by being murdered near Torere.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10310, 20 January 1927, Page 4
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292TORERE TRAGEDY Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10310, 20 January 1927, Page 4
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