THE CONDEMNED NATIVE.
STATEMENT BY THE HON. JAS. CARROLL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Hon. ' Jas. Carroll, ActingPrime Minister;''states, in regard to the decision of the Executive against reprieving the sentence of death recently passed on the Maori lad Tahi Kaka, now awaiting execution for the murder of an elderly gumdigger in North Auckland, that the matter was considered very carefully. The evidence was fully before them, and it allowed no conclusion but that the murder was premeditated and deliberately carried out. There was no redeeming feature about the act itself, and the only ground of vlie jury's recommendation to mercy was the prisoner's youth. There- had no provocation for the act, which might have worked on the prisoner's mind. If special leniency was shown in the case it might have a bad effect on the rising Maori generation. Everyone would shrink from confirming a sentence involving a human being's existence, but so long as capital punishment prevailed its application must be recognised.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10263, 15 June 1911, Page 5
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165THE CONDEMNED NATIVE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10263, 15 June 1911, Page 5
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