TUHI’S EXECUTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2568, 17 April 1923, Page 3

TUHI’S EXECUTION.

AHNISTER OF JUSTICE REPLIES TO PETITIONERS. Wellington April 10. . Sir Francis Bell, Minister of Justices stated to-day that there were two petitions suggesting a deficient mentality of the young Alaori, John Tuhi, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Herbert Henry Knight, at .Johnsonville. The petitions were carefully considered. The InspectorOoneral of Alentnl 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 there were no grounds for suggesting that Tuhi was not responsible for his acts. Both the petitions and the report were laid before the Governor-Gen-eral as well as before Cabinet, and were considered by both. With regard to the statement prisoner made at the trial, that someone else was the murderer. Tuhi had been twice inferviewed by detectives, under instructions from Department of Justice, and was informed that if he would give information to the police they would make every invstigation, but he declined to make any furfhr statement or give any name.