MURDER NEAR WEL LINGTON.
A MYSTERIOUS CRIME.
COWARDLY AND COLD-BLOODED AFFAIR.
(press association telegram.]

WELLINGTON, June 1

A death so far surrounded with mys terious circumstances occurred at the Upper Kaiwarawara,last night. MrThoma Hawkins, a well-known settler who lived m the district named, left town at five last night, and was found about eight o'clock lying dead on the branch road which leads to his farm. The body was lying at full length, and bore marks of violence on the neck, and his vest was considerably torn. Nothing is known how the deceased cam e by his death, but it is supposed that he either fell, or was thrown, from bis trap, and that the horse kicked, or the wheel passed over, his body. Dr. Cahill. who examined the body, says death resulted from hemorrhage of the jugular vein, but he declines to express the opinion how the wounds were caused until he makes a Post mortem this morning. Two wounds were fonnd on the neck. Hawkins was a man much respected in town.
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