THE CONDEMNED MAORI
TO BE HANGED THIS MORNING. !j
Tahi Kaka, the young Maori mur-, derer, will be hanged at the Movant . Eden Gaol, Auckland, at 8 o'clock, this morning. It is reported that| Kaka is quite resigned to his fate. |. "A man can only die once,"" he says.'i and he has written letters of farewell' to all his friends. '■ PARENTS OF MURDERED TVIAN * INTERVIEWED. - '! ./By Telegraph—Presj Association.) TIMARU, Tiast Night. This mcrtii-s n Timam Post renve-se->tat'-o waited imon Mr and Mrs j John Freeman, old age pensioners, j aged 84 s»'kl 72 years respectively, living in Timaru. and.parents of "John t Freeman, the man who was murdered near Auckland by the Maori youth Tahi Kaka. The pressman expressed the symoathv of the New "Zealand ; Press -nth the old peonle in their sad bereavement, and nought a message of intercession to Cabinet on behalf of fhe Tlie parents were intears. The old man finally replied, "John was a good and honest lad. He died cruel- < ly. Cabinet has twice decided that there are no points upon which mercy can bo shown. I am not above 'Cabinet. I cannot interfere." , •
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10268, 21 June 1911, Page 5
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189THE CONDEMNED MAORI Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10268, 21 June 1911, Page 5
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