TRIAL OF TUHI.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 182, 17 December 1880, Page 3

TRIAL OF TUHI.

'THE VERDICT. At 2.37 p.m. on AA'ednesday last, the jury returned to Court with a verdict of “Guilty." On being asked what he had to say, ! prisoner said, “I have nothing to say.” II is Honor then assumed the black cap, and said : —Prisoner at the bar, —It may be that the only motive for the crime of which you have been convicted, was that which you told to Constable Taylor. I, myself, believe that there was no other. Prom your confession, I believe you have long since repented of taking the life of Aliss Dohie. If you have not, no words of mine can affect you. I think it well to observe that you have been convicted not on European evidence only, but on that of your own people—not only of the same race, but of your own connections. The sentence of the law is that you he taken from there to the place of execution, and that you he there hanged by the neck until you be dead ; and may God have mercy upon your soul. His Honor appeared much affected in passing tile sentence of death, but when he came to the last few words prisoner smiled in the coolest and unconcerned manner, and jauntily tripped from the dock to the floor of the Court. While being ushered out, he looked around him, nodded his head familiarly to some persons at a distance, and laughed. 'The Court was packed in every part when the jury returned, and the verdict was awaited with much anxiety. 'The sentence though expected, caused profound sensation.

Immediately after sentence had been passed, a large number of the spectators in Court rushed round to the yard at the back of the Provincial Buildings to witness the removal of the prisoner. Tuhi guarded by two policemen and the gaoler, Mr AJicaiah Read, soon made his appearance at the door and looked round in a bewildered way, as if puzzled at the interest manifested in his movements. There was no hissing or any other demonstration on the part of the public, who merely manifested a strong curiosity to see the prisoner, a large number following him as far as the cab which conveyed him to the gaol. — Pont.