CAPTURE OF WINIATA.
[By Tklhgbaph.] AUCKLAND, Jane 27. Winiata, the murderer of a fellow-servant, named Packer, at Cleghorn’c farm, Epsom, in January, 1876, and who haa since been a refugee in the King country, was captured to day, and brought into Hamilton by Constable Gillies. Plans for tbe capture •were laid by the police at the Whatiwhatihoe meeting. Winiata was then living at Te Kuiti, forty-five miles inland. Ike police enlisted the services of a halt-caste, named Barlow, who went to Te KuiU trading for pigs with Winiata, supplying him with grog, and making hims:-lf generally agreeable. Having ingratiated himself in this 'way in Win ia ta ’a confidence, he induced him to come into his (Barlow’s) settlement, twenty-fire miles from Eakikihi, Here Barlow, whole a very powerful man, seised him and conveyed hied ■; single-handed to Te AwaBantu, where ho delivered him to the local police He will be brought up before the •Bench at Hamilton to-day.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2564, 27 June 1882, Page 3
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