THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2327, 22 June 1886, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

Auckland, This day. " Further details of the murder at the Great Barrier report on Saturday morning last Penn went to Taylor's house and asked for some butter. Taylor told him he could have some, and asked Penn what cutter he was in. Penn told him it was the Teviot. Taylor replied "Oh, is it?" Caffery, it- is said, then walked up and told Taylor to put his hands up and fired, one chamber of his revolver at him, which did not hurt him. Penn then seized Taylor, and it is alleged held Tiiin while Caffery fired three more shots, "which killed him, one shot going through the poor man's head. While this tragic scene was being enacted, the other members "of the family, which consisted of three women and a boy, left the house, and Penn is reported to have run out, calling Mrs Taylor back, and threatened to shoot her if she did not come. He (Penn) then asked her where the girls were. Mrs Taylor told them they were dining at Seymour's. Then Caffery is alleged to have replied : " We'll go put there and do for them." They they went'on board the cutter and tried to get to Seymour's place at Heretaunga, but the wind being unfavorable t!iey could-not do so. Meanwhile, Lincoln, Taylor's son, rode over to Seymour's with the sad intelligence, and Seymour started for Typhena. Previously to this the postman (Mr "Blair) despatched the cutter Tairua to Coromandel for assistance. There seems to have been no reason whatever for the terrible outrage, aB Taylor was one of the moat respectable men on the island.