EXECUTION OF WINIATA.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1114, 4 August 1882, Page 2

EXECUTION OF WINIATA.

[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, This Day. Winiata was executed this morning. He protested his innocence to the last. Wiuiata stepped out of his cell and walked firmly towards the scaffold, nodding to the Sheriff and spectators. The Rev. Wallis who has been with him since his trial, asscended the scaffold with the murderer and repeated the prayers for the dying. Winiata said, “ Friends, Europeans, I am going to give my body to be killed. Liston to me all you. My hands did not kill that European. This is the end of my body, I have now a word to say to God.” Raising his eyes to heaven he continued, “ 1 am delivering my soul into thy hands, remember me when I come into Thy kingdom. This is all I hare to say.” The cap was then adjusted over his head, and on a signal, from the Sheriff the executioner drew the bolt. The scaffold was so constructed that immediately the drop was drawn the criminal disappeared from the sight of the spectators, all the lower portion of the scaffold being boarded up. On examination the neck was found to have been broken, the hoad hanging back. The doctors state that signs of life were visible for eight minutes. After hanging half en hour the body was taken down and placed in a coffin at the foot of the scaffold, and a formal inouesfa held. No person claims the body and the coroner ordpred.it to be buried within the precincts of the gaol, The executioner was a convict, about 24 years of age, of short stature and short build. He is said to have executed Hiroki, Walsh, and A. H. Lee in this colony, and three murderers in New South Wales.