FATHER LARKIN.
Concerning the prosecution of Father Larkin for manslaughter, the Honolulu correspondent of the‘New Zealand Herald’ writes “ What the jury at the trial will find it impossible to conjecture, because so very many here, both his own Church and amongst the most influential Protestants, entertain such violent prejudice against Father Larkin that he may nol have a faiv trial. The evidence by which it is sought to fix on him such knowledge of the state of the building as would render his allowing people in it culpable, or even rash, is very weak indeed, and is opposed by the fact that he had himself been for some time inside shortly before the accident, and was standing at the door when it occured. Tnree boys lately from New Zealand, named Frederick Clarke and William and Leonard Webb, had a narrow escape. They were amusing themselves close by one corner of the building, but had fortunately been prohibited from entering lest they should interfere with the work going on within.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2629, 24 August 1881, Page 3
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169FATHER LARKIN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2629, 24 August 1881, Page 3
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