JOHN TUHI.
STATEMENT BY .MINISTER. [T.y tfaechatit — n:n press association.] WELLINGTON, April 16. Sir Francis Bell. Minister of Justice, stated to-day that there were two petitions suggesting the deficient mentality of the young Maori John luhi. convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Herbert Henry Knight at Joluisonville. The petitions were carefully considered and tlie Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals and the doctor in charge of the Porirua Asylum had an interview with the prisoner and spent a considerable time with him and then reported to the Government that them was no ground for the suggestion that luhi was not responsible lor his acts. Both petition and report were laid before the Governor-General, as well as before Cabinet and were considered hv both with regard to the statement that prisoner made at the trial that someone else was the murderer. Tnlii has been twice interviewed by detectives under instructions from tno Department of Justice and inlormed that if he would give information the police would make every investigation, but he declined to make any furt.icr statement or give any name.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1923, Page 1
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181JOHN TUHI. Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1923, Page 1
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