RELEASE OF MAHI KAI.
After 16 Years Imprisonment.
Wellington, To-day.
Yesterday morning Mahi Kai, a Taranaki Maori, was released from the Terrace Gaol, after serving sixteen years’ hard labour. In 1890 Mahi murdered a decrepit old man named Stephen Moloney, who lived in a small hut near the Recreation Grounds at New Plymouth. v. The prisoner was tried before Mr Justice Conolly at New Plymouth October sessions of 1890, and on the 21 st of that month he was sentenced to death. The jury recommended the prisoner to mercy on account of his youth—he was only seventeen at the time—and the fact that he belonged to the. Maori race. The recommendation was acted upon by the Executive, and the sentence commuted to penal servitude for life.
He spent his entire term at the Terrace Gaol. Since incarceration he had been one of the most docile, well behaved, and industrious prisoners in the gaol. He was educated and taught the trade of a carpenter, in which he attained considerable proficiency. Mahi Kai has grown to be a fine stalwart man during his imprisonment.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3728, 6 December 1906, Page 3
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182RELEASE OF MAHI KAI. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3728, 6 December 1906, Page 3
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