AUCKLAND.
This day.
£50 worth, of damage was done to Buchanan's monumental masonry by, the Kale on Saturday through the grave-stones being blown down and broken. A girl named Julia. Grimby, of Newton, is reported missing since the 14th. Newton, a witness against Winiata, is in fear of his life. Bishop Redwood is expected here tomorrow, to open the new Catholic 'Church, I Judge Gillies, in pronouncing sentence | on Winiata, said—" The jury after a Tery patient investigation and trial hare found you guilty of the crime of killing Edward Packer. The eridence of your guilt is so dear that no denial of yours could at all affect the mind of anyone who heard it. It must be perfectly clear to anyone who heard that evidence that it was you who committed this crime. I shall not dilate upon the circumstances. It was a foul, deliberate, inhuman, unprovoked murder. You have a long time escaped from justice, but justice has overtaken you at last. There is but one punishment for a crime like yours, and the sentence of the law which awards that punishment it is my. duty to pronounce. Sentence of death was then pronounced. The prisoner was much bewildered as he was led
away.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4225, 17 July 1882, Page 2
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206AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4225, 17 July 1882, Page 2
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