EXECUTION OF TUHI.
— [By Teleurapu.] Wklmxgton, Dec. 29. Tiihl, the murderer of Miss Dobie at Opmuike, was executed in Wellington gaol at eight this morning. He walked firmly on to the scaffold and was accompanied by Archdeacon Stack. The drop was eight feet, and death was instantaneous. Up to the last the condemned man asserted that he was maddened from the effects of drink and almost totally unaware of what ho was doing when the crime was committed.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2428, 29 December 1880, Page 2
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78EXECUTION OF TUHI. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2428, 29 December 1880, Page 2
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