The Great Barrier Murderers
PENN'S BODY APPLIED FOR.
[PEB UNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, February 11.
The friends of Penu have applied to have the body after the execntion. The Minister of Justice replied that the disposal of the body was in the discretion of the sheriff, and that if the sheriff was satisfied the funeral would be quiet and without demonstration, the Government would not object to the body of Fenn being given to his friends for burial. Fenn, on being interviewed by his mother, said, " I know what my doom is, mother, but I am innocent of murder." It is presumed what he meant was that he never planned it or deliberately took Taylor's life.
Wellington, February 11.
The gallows on which the Great Barrier murderers, Caffrey and Perm, will suffer the extreme penalty of the law is shipped on board the s.s. Tarawera, which leaves for Auckland this A warder from Wellington goes up with the apparatus. The executioner will be a man who has acted in the same capacity on several previous occasions, and is now on his way from Christchurch to the Northern oapital.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 12 February 1887, Page 2
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188The Great Barrier Murderers Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 12 February 1887, Page 2
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