The Great Barrier Murder

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 49, 5 October 1886, Page 2

The Great Barrier Murder

ARREST OF CAFFERY IN NEW SOUTH WALES. [per united press association.] Wellington, October 4. The Evening Post last night says : " We understand that the police autbo. rities have received a cable message from the Superintendent of Police of New South Wales stating that a man answering the portrait and description 1 of Caffery the Great Barrier murderer, has been arrested. The man in custody has, however, on his breast some tattoo marks which are not noted in the description ef Caffery sent up by the New Zealand Police, but it is quite possible that they did not know of I these. Caffrey's mate, Fenn, has it is believed, also been seen in New South Wales. The supposition is that the two men landed in New South Wales after abandoning the Sovereign of the Seas in such a position that she would be wrecked, and oreate an impression that all hands had been drowned." Probably an officer will be sent from Auckland to Sydney to see if the man in custody is really Caffrey. This Day. | Caffrey is known to have the figure of a woman tatooed on his breast. The man arrested in N.S.W. has a similar figure, but he also has the Amerioan flag, which is not known to occur on Caffrey's body. Telegrams are new passing between the authorities with a view to a close identification. Auckland, October 4. Superintendent Thomson has received no intelligence as to the rumoured arrest of Caffrey.