Guilty of Murder

A.D.O. McDonald’s Slayer Remanded for Sentence

RABAUL, April 11.

AT the Rabaul Supreme Court to-day, the ex-police boy Sepei was found guilty by Chief Judge Wanliss of the wilful murder of Assistant District Officer E. C. McDonald at Ambunti, on the Sepik River, New Guinea, on February 28. The native was remanded for sentence.

Cadet Jack Hepburn gave evidence that the native, after shooting McDonald as he slept, ran away and unsuccessfully attempted to suicide by stabbing himself with a small knife. He eventually climbed up a tree and threw himself down, becoming unconscious.

In his evidence the native told of alleged injustices and persecution at the hands of McDonald. He also described an alleged quarrel with the A.D.O. over the ownership of a pet dog.

Mrs. Ella Alice Anderson, of Fiji, died at Suva at the age of 89, on March 20.

Going to Fiji some 70 years ago from Nova Scotia, Canada, she had spent the greater part of her life in the Colony.