The Great Barrier Murder
f*BB UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, October 7. He Sovereign of the Sea's wreck, Peun's relatives are inclined to believe in his reported death by drowning. "When the news was broken to Perm s father he took it very quietly, saying he expected to hear his son: was dead as he had seen him in a vision a f«jrt T night ago. ' The South British Insurance Company have paid over the insurance /on the Sovereign of the Seas, believing that the policy covered the act of barratry committed" by Caffrey. Wellington, October 7. The police authorities have received a cablegram from Queensland stating that a man has been arrested there who is supposed to be Perm, the accomplice of Caffrey, in the Great Barrier murder. Enquiries are asked by the Queensland police as to whether Perm had a scar over the ©yes. It is understood that he had a, mark over the left eye- No mention is made of the girl Graham, who accompanied the men in the Sovereign of the Seas. . October 8. ' There is now Teason to Bupposethat Pe'un and the woman have been murdered. A bonnet and hat have been picked up on the beach, the former ahnvmjr some cuts which might have been made by a sharp instrument.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 51, 9 October 1886, Page 3
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215The Great Barrier Murder Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 51, 9 October 1886, Page 3
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