Walter Tricker.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 July 1891, Page 2

Walter Tricker.

— ♦ 'The oldW settlers 4n 'tlii^dfelrict will be pleased to learfr ' tba#£ 6n' Tuesday morning the (Exeeutivfe granted Walter Trjickei;a,free pardon. Twentysix years ago lie wW^aped on his trial for the murder of. one Raynor, in the Rangitikei district, and was, on purely^ cjrcb&fet&fltial > evidence, found guilty and' sWtefa'ced to death. ' The present Venerable Archdeacon Stock was so impressed with the man's innocence, turd moved f with- so much energy, that he succeeded in securing a commutation of his sentence to imprisp^ment for life. Theinterest did not abate at this, and after six and a half years penal ser- . vitude, the representationskina.de of the almost impossibility of Tricker having been able to cover the distance, Admitted' to' haw..beeii.Bnejfisary to have tr^yelj^^iii the}|;^w3, was admitted^ anu^ waaviib^rl^d on a conditipn^^wott^ll^iiii^ This unsatiafootoi^ posi^6n;;^ag been occupied by Walter 3&js^|jbr the past twenty years. On leaving gaol he went straight to his old ltdirne near Bulls, where he has resided as a quiet, peaceable, law-abiding settler ever since. . ,-■■ The pardon is no doubt due to the action taken by Colonel Gorton just previous to his leaving the colony/for his trip to England, )vhen he obtained a numerously, signed petition of the neighbours and settlers in the Rangitikei district, praying tlia Government that a free pardon should be granted. ■ '„,>