The Great Barrier Murder
WEECK OF THE SOVEREIGN OP THE SEAS. |^ [PFB UHITKDPBKSS ASSOCIATION/} \ {. Auckland, September 29. 10. The Superintendent of Police has d received a telegram stating that the o cutter Sovereign of the Seas has-been d wrecked near Port Macquarrie, New jj South Wales. The wreckage was found there on the 25th instant, and includes a board with the name of the> ,_ cutter painted on. It will be rememjj bered that the Sovereign of the Seas a was the cutter in which the Great a Barrier murderers escaped in June >f last. For over a month a strange' a cutter was sighted near Port Macft quarrie, and it was subsequently reported that Caffrey, one of the murd derers, had been seen in Victoria. *• The Great Barrier Island is again >r coming into notorietj. A constablehas been despatched there to arrest a h Imshman who threatened to . shoot h another, who is alleged to have said i. it was a great pity that Caffrey had A gone away so quickly, as he should Lave had a mate.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 47, 30 September 1886, Page 2
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178The Great Barrier Murder Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 47, 30 September 1886, Page 2
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