THE CONVICT JARVEY.

Evening Post, Issue 213, 13 October 1865, Page 2

THE CONVICT JARVEY.

The Dunedin Herald contains the following paragraph:— We understand that the con. vict Jurvey has, as yet, made no Bigns »f penitence or confession to his spiritual advisers. Whilst paying deference to the j' appeals of the Revds. Messrs. Edwards, Con- { nebee, and Smith, who attend him, he is evidently too much buoyed up with the hope of escaping punishment to pay dpep attention' to spiritiißl instructions. It appears that a day or two after Jarrey's conviction, he received a visit from one of his sons, who told him that a meeting was about to be held in the Octagon, and a petition gSt up in his favor. This information greatly unsettled the unhappy man, and since that time he has not censed to hope that he will escape) death at least by the gallows. We havlr heard of nothing to warrant the conclusion that Jarvey will escape the punishment to whLh he has been doomed, nor do we think that there is any considerable number of personsin the community who think any exception should be made in his favor. Probably a few weeks will elapse before the warrant for the execution of the criminal can reach Dunedin. The evidence taken at the trial will be carefully examined by the Executive before the final order for execution can be signed by the Governor. In proof that the hopes entertained by ' the wretched criminal are not shared by the authorities, it may be stated that the apparatus of death, the first of the kind that has been made in Dunedin, it in course of preparation.