ANOTHER ACCOUNT. FULL DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. Alleged Cold-Blooded Crime.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 158, 26 June 1886, Page 4

ANOTHER ACCOUNT. FULL DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. Alleged Cold-Blooded Crime.

Couou vnj>::l, June 22. I'-viiTii-s who have armed heie make the following extiaoulinaiy statements with icgard to the reported mm dor on Clreat Bauier Island. The ti.iged}, they state, took i)lace on Saturday morning last, the victim being an old man named ILobort T.nloi. a faimer, and the mimleicm John Cafleiy and Jieiuy Perm, ma-tei and mate of the eultei, "Soveieign oi the bea>." It hccrns that on Satmday mouiiug last I'cnn went to Ta\ lor's house and asked lor -omc butter. TaUoi told him he could ha\e some, and asked Puim wh it cutter he was in. J'euu told him it Mas the Toviot. Tdjloi iei)hecl : '• Oh, i.s a. ' Cafleiy, it is said, then walked in, and told Taylor to "put hi-, h.inrh up." ami fimd mie eh nnbei oi hhsicxohci at him. w hi, h did not hint him. Perm then soi/.ed Taylor, and, it is, allied, held him while Gallery fired three ni'jie shots, -which killed hiu'i— one .shot guing thiough the pool man's head. ,

More Murders Tiirentencd. While thi.s tiag le scene w as being enacted, the othev members of the family, which con.-i-ttd of tlnce -\\omtn and a boy, left the house, ad L'cnn i«, iei>oUed to ha\e run out, called M.s Taylo. baok, .a-.d (hieatened to «hoot her if ?he did not ronu-. Ho {Venn) then asked -\\hcie ihe giilh wuie. i\li h Taylor told him they were lixiiv at Mi Seymour b. "Then," CaHiey is alfeged to have leplied, "wo'U no out iheio and do lor them •'' They (hen went on boa id the cutter, and tried lo t;et io place at Haiataunga, bat the wind beinfj uufa\ oui able they eoidd not do so Meanwhile- Lincoln Ta\ lor. tlie son, rode over to Seymour* place uiLh (he «ad intelligence, and j\h ,Se\moui started ior Try])hena ]Jie\ioubly to tli^ the potman, Ah Blair, luul despatched the cutter Tan ua to Coiomundcl for aosi.stauoo ; but &hoitly aftci she ted

The Alleged Murderers chased them, and the Tuiru.'i inn back to Tiyphena. Or\ Sunday morning the Tan ua ;tgain started, and biouoht the news, heie'to Soigcant Tiiere seems to have been no reason whatever for this most horrible oullage, as Mr. Taylor was one of the mo.st iexpectable men on the island, lie was a native of Bolton, in Lancashire, and several or his iclatives occupy leading positions in that town. There has not been a vessel in Tryphena for the last- eight yeais which w ill not bear testimony to the kindness and hospitality of the Taylor family. Another telegiam from Coromandel says that Taylor was, 70 years of age. Caflery shot at him four times and missed him, when Perm caught himjby the throat and CaHery hhot him through the head. It is feared that the accused men will escape to the Islands.