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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 328, 30 November 1865, Page 3

The Character of the Convict Jarvet in Tasmania. —The second trial of Captain Jarvey at Dunedin, for the murder of his wife, has terminated in the conviction of the prisoner, and his sentence to death without hope of mercy. Independently of the atrocity and heartless cruelty of the crime itself, which formed the subject of this last judicial investigation, Jarvey’s trial has excited unusual attention in the Australian Colonies, from the circumstances that it was held, in the first instance, before a judge whose name is equally familiar to a Tasmanian and Yictorian public—MrH. S. Chapman; and that it has cost Victoria the life of one of her most eminent medical men, Dr. Macadam, the Government Analytical Chemist, who died on his passage to New Zealand as a witness for the Crown. This case possesses a special interest for Tasmania. Jarvey was well-known in this Colony ; occupied for some years a farm on the Huon ; and was -at one time a pawnbroker in this city [Hobart Town]. There has always been a suspicion of foul play in connection with the deaths of Jarvey’s children at the Huon farm ; and the circumstances disclosed in the trials, which have at last, fortunately for the interests of humanity, placed the miscreant’s life at the mercy of the law, are quite sufficient to justify the belief that in his case the cruel and cold-blooded murder of his helpless wife was only the sequel to the dastardly destruction of his infant off-spring. Thanks to the firmness of the Otago Provincial ■Executive, the zeal of the Crown Lawyer, the intelligence of the jury, and, above all, to the rigid impartiality and judicial acumen of his Honor Mr Justice Richmond, a conviction has been attained upon the clearest and most convincing testimony, which leaves no doubt whatever upon the public mind of the prisoner’s guilt. The world is thus in a fair way let us hope, to be rid of a scoundrel as designing, as unrelenting, and as unprincipled as Dr. Pritchard, the Glasgow wife-poisoner.— Tasmanian Morning Herald.