THE PUHIPUHI MURDER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 330, 17 June 1911, Page 5

THE PUHIPUHI MURDER.

TRADES COUNCIL URGES REPRIEVE. By Telegraph.—Press Asseeiation. ' Wellington, Last Night. A deputation from the Trades Council waited on,the Hon. J. Carroll, ActingPremier, and urged the reprieve of Tahi Kaka, the Maori youth sentenced to death for the murder of the gumdigger Freeman at Puhipuhi. Mr. Carroll said the executive in settin aside the jury's recommendation to mercy had the evidence before them together with the judge's report, and arrived at its decision after careful deliberation. The strongest argument in favor of the reprieve, said Mr. Carroll, was Kaka's youth, for the evidence disclosed that the murder was deliberate. He had received telegrams and petitions from all parts of the Dominion, and the executive would carefully consider the question this evening. He could assure the deputation this was a painful position for anyone to be put in, but they had a responsibility to discharge and had to see the law properly administered and not deflected from its course unless for very strong reasons. He could assure them his mind was free from bias, arising from the fact that he belonged to the race from which Kaka sprang. PROTEST AGAINST HANGING. Masterton, Lust Night. At the conclusion of an address delivered by Professor Mills, of Milwaukee in Masterton to-night, a resolution was protesting against the execution of Jnhi Kaka and against capital punishment generally.