The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1989. Unravelling the Hangman's knot.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3213, 25 May 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1989. Unravelling the Hangman's knot.

" Hako a mar, llrstand inquire into hia case afterward, ' ! That appeura to be what has been, and is being done iii the casa ot' llatra ta Pare, who haa been executed for the murder of the rook family on the East Coast, if ib." 1 Mlmvir-" pnnignipI', 1 ', winch we from ilw columns of '.ho Kvouitig Pest, is correct: —• A copy of thu nmtcmciit made liy the murderer ol die i-o ,k faniiij ju.4 boiore he ivQ'j eiocutea al Kainnr m noiv in th-j posHRgaion o£ tjje liJoiisuj ■/< Justice, but as cmiuirio.l a™ loade as to tho truth tif the allcaationa nuuio by ll.i- duorr.eit man it ie nol coiißidercd doiiiraliie iij allow the text to be pu^lUht!, s . jucl at pi'cannl. It ia, of eourae, loiowo that the oitiftinrer elatod before ho wtal on the icaffaW that Ihe crime had bete enmmittud by liie fcrotbor. There are, however, eomb other |ieDuli»iailegaliunii hi Ihe statement.

i There appears to bo no reason why the cdi-recincs/i of this paragraph should be doubtotl. But of what uso ia it, may wo ask, to a man who hua been hanged, to inquire into the circumstances now ? Tho supposed rr urdf'rei- 1m? bean tried, found guilty, sentenced to death, and duly axcouled, If the statement which ho miulo shortly before ho met hig ilnotii provos to be correct, can the Govommont wipe out tho judicial murder which has beon committed ? Or can it, oven io tho fliightcut degrco, coudone tho extreme injuiitico -which has beon dpno 1 It qim do nothing oE tho Itiud. Jt cir.i ouly wovo ono oi' two tilings,—Fir al that thu nmu was really guilty, and that his exoeution was juct; or aeuo/i'l, that ho was innocent tind that tho machinery of tho law, which in supposed to give Hn uecnawl person the iuniefifc of ovoti tljo slight-! est doubt, li«h b&on proved to Im (tut of cider, and tlmt, following; (ho cry of " biood Sot blood," tho wong rami lim been hanged. Whatever tho [statement referred to may contain, it in nbnolutely certm'n thai, it was jnudo. wlioj) (he condemned ami Jinovy Ihat uvea hia very minutes wire numbered Jt uacniß to bo curtain that tlio Minister of jisatice b«« the poyeiod that there ii! bo ran thing wrong, Having onco bcJli Englieh law Gjiuts it* pjiro to a pondtitnned peraon, aniens; indeed, lw has friwiae in Ligli places who cttn jr.fluanco ihodovtsraaasst to ra>opcn liis tiaso," The naforiusitt* Ifsiri

had no Buoh friends, anil the Sheriff turned adeaf aar to what lie bad to r eay—utterly indifferent, as long as 110 hishar official stayed bin hand, Now that; execuiioii has taken place,' it Trill do very little good to [enquire:whether the man who suffered the extreme penalty of the law, or .another person, realty committed the murder. liven if such a thing were established beyond all doubt, it would not reeali the crying injustice, not could the real culprit 1m brought up and punished for his crime, He could go about from place to place—fhow ims.nlf for money if ho thought fit—and wa'lt ap to any policeman and say, " I nmrdored three people, and you dare not touch ma for it." Nor could anyone call him a murderer, even oil the Btrongth of his own confession, without exposing hiinsolf to u serious prosucution for libol. Ilia hands might bo red int.li blood, but: the law would consider him to be white an fsnow, dimply be.,;tuvj it 31us already takon the blood of an innnoonfc person for tho crime. Wo do not wish it to bo inferred Lhiit we arc of opinion that the inquiry which tho Minister of Justice is about to mi die wilt proyo altogether use Jem Wo are of opinion that if it proven that a judicial murder has been couimittod a very useful pnqione will bo served, because it will uliyw that justice is not infallible, mid thai, so far from being blind, it cjii seejunt enough to lone itself in its own intricacies. Many of tin; older fietllers will, porhaps, remember tho case of Walter Tricker. of l!angitil;ei, who was tried for the murder, i:i 18(53, of J, S. Jlaynor, found guilty, mid sentenced to death. It required all tho power that could be brought to 'bear upon tho Government to save Tricker from the extreme penalty of tho law. Tho sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life, and after Tricker had been in gaol for about ten yeans, circumstances came, to light which j tactically proved him innocent, and ho was then liberated. In the case under notice it is too late to untie the hangman's fatal knot. But if it can he proved thai the law ha« beau too hasty, a change may, perhaps, be made which wiil icake'a recurrence of such cases impossible. It is a serious blot on the Statute lioolc of New Zealand thai a miscarriage- of justice which involves tJie sacrifice of a lite should not only bcimpossibSe, hut thufc it should actually have occurred.

Mr Valiender, of Tumi:!,-;, iIK-ri a full mouthed Ij.'ieestei- cw<- !;isr. week, which when dreaaed turned r,cale at JO.Jlh.

Itichnrd Gatliim, iiivsutur of 'lie Galliiigjnin, luia a police -nn u,r 0813 in roLta, which will ftro 12(K) „h ,ts a iiiimiti). Uiy i«;l.isivai, !:■• v.-ill lie the destructive force cuij'kiyud in future warfare.

A woman at liii'orkuithfnt; fnunci a burglar m he? parlour. She lii.zjd Ik.lll of him, brought him out of iii.i hoiisu and gave him into the .::is;ody of a town councillor, a neighbor, -.-honi blus succeeded ill rousing by rappii.j.' at. his dorir.

Mr-Gladstonii'j) vtiiuo u id groat .It, lunnd in Americn. Net only dues Mr Edison bold Jov.n:s in his laboratory ti, meet tho Ht.iiUsinnii i.i aWrui.i, but ho haa determined tn malm Im v,.. tlio first to respond to lim now ayst, in oE multiplication.

By a careful estimate, the ships of war liuuichul by tlio naval [lowers -A O'tworld hi 18SS nmoberutl rhrty, while more than one hundred were build, iii't when the year closed. At the M.istertuii Seae.jl Picnic n; Queen's ISirthiay a littl.i boy nunud fjoorye Clifton fractured ilia keen, 1J !; was at a swing boat and it issuppatud he either {l>ll out or was lcnncked oi .jr. Medical aid was pr'oni[>l,l y (.l,taun.-d and the littlo au/l'orur afterwardf. roiuovtid (« to the Hoiipiiul, There«till lemaiua on the Statute iiiu.k an Act of Pru-liaincjut paap.-cl in ttiii roitrn of Henry VIII., which juwiiJkh tlsat no perKun r.r imrsons who «i„i tho W,4sl; speech or hnijruaga shall have or <inj„y any ofl'aie or feeß onless he or !i;oy o-ic and exeroiao tho lingliiili .M r Oabornu Morgan iuendeavoring to oMmii ; the repoal of this anriquated eii-'.tt menc. Tho Vosaiedie Zeituotr from o private letfer junt received from Cairo. Th» writer says:—"To,-, know ibat Wiaamatin tnmeelf ia not a ■ doinril nt.j thusmst nod I hoard him testily- that tin! Chancellor lifts no more ardent a-ui) than to &ee our 'orereaceutes' in th::i resDetit put an end ;u. WJion bidding \?iß3Diann y-iod-byo, the Chancellor took hia head in both hio lianda and kissid liiin, riioommendiog him to t'.k.pl as hu guidtog prineipla a flood uiuleratandiLig with the English." At the Masteiton E.M. Court this mornhifi G. Kller-aand It, lXwsou , i( « each lliiL-d 2s Gd and 7b cuata for a bi-eauh . of the bv-lawa ill driving round coriisra at. I other than walking paee, Tliis aliouid aot ao a caution to others. At tne Porirua races on the Queen's Birthday, A. Lyfurd'a Cupid ivon ;!io Hoilway StakeJi, of 20 bovb, ftijlit! Bower being second. Gupid also ran second in thu I'ofirna Cap, won bjj Petor, and filled a similar placo in ;he Stewards Handicap, won liy Akntua. An neeiden; lidiifioued to a aoti of Mr W. IS. Buick whilst rotiiming with a aarty in a buggy frtJ 'n the rsto on Fruiuj'. J hi: veliiele jolted the youn ir mau out nnii lip fr-H ,i.„ , It

nbieh iiassto ovtr bin and fiauLui-i-d it.

The Soiree which ivas fivun by die l J !'pawai Uitlfcs on thu nigbt "f tliu «Jr(l Hint, I'jovt.'d to bo fii,e oi tlio 7,... ji imunessful aliiiirsof tho kind over lino", ti ill the district. The Kativeo not only did everything in their power to make il ASUeceaa, but tliey eiij;aHod as rnueh European talent as they eould to assist lllcni. Tho ti'sidt was that tho tables in the. Mi-.oti Moeiiog Uuiiae wove laid t -ill; ovurything iliat the «e,.son, mid the ingenuity of tlu eooli tmi'Jd prbviltd, The attendance of l>otjh lil!ro|ieanu and Natives was very lur«|;, and all enjoyed thenisulyes thornuglilji. A number of speecltea v/ere madu by aonio of those protonl, Mr \V. (p, Buchanan, the mamhor fur tlm dintri.-|t, boinij one of the epeakem. That versatile comoclitoi, Mr J. ];l. Foloy. ijara Jii« entertabiiumit " KoineU Kolutiunß " to a fair house on Thursday, and kept hie riudionco entertoiiieil filr tjv» hours and a half, no mean feat f.Lr an Individual to do ninpie lianuad, Tlio ollnractor« wecu oapitslly nuotained, the dinloßUfl is vory huioerouu, while tao | rapid of dresu ivero iiiinnfy 1 marvellous, tlio trnmiformntiMii tVuni a i fat old Outehnmii to a charming voujm bride (dr<;eßCd with ({luvc>., veil and HTOLitb cnjn(ltefo) in l';aa that liOseiln, boijjtr capocittlly noticeeblu. Last Mr Foley wan aoalstod by his wife, v?ho in a very clever r,ctrosa ntid aecoinunniut rouoicSnii. I'licro who a vury largo audience, tlio pit being |>uckod, tiio front ppfits were also w«JI tiJJod, Tlio performance WW voted by those prenont to bo an improvoipsnt on the hrot one, and Shu pcrfomiet'S were n-iao in keopiiig their br.at bill of faro for tlio largest bouse. Tho ontoi'lninrnatit opened wif.b a very cJovoi-Jy wlStou 0.-«n edy wluo}i kept tho sudii:iiuo in roari;. The aeCDiel part .of some very o'.ov]or ventrilocjuial business with two dummies and tv ntunbei' of national impsmonk* tionif «Bd (ißtices.. At the request ora number of Ihoia present last night who promised to: Attend if another parforfe. gmoo was Rijrijtf fifr Foley will appiTar agAta. ' tp-nlght, vfiißU ' another irclli i prt^niiuna ,wdl bo jjnivid'ed, iricladjlig sotfle nigssoj- ecqeofrfciUes. WJiielj villi !>s clA'u for iiie tirst tifps here, end we Si»tk no douU iliat th»re will b* fuiotller goog hottss io witneiw the perf&rmaHijo. I

. fro invited, Uhoui' only for aiiiy chains of Vice foneicfrby' Mr W, lorns. - . At t.he Duutidm tYuiamn mcaticg of tho Queen's Birthday,, Monteagia foil, and its owner and rider, J. Jonei*, vrtus seriously injured, : Ho Hm iahce died.. Race Mcatmya have not teen a financial Buccals lately. Tho Canterbury J. C. bulnnbo sheet to bo : submitted to tho general meeting on Tuesday noit ahowa a deGbioncy on tho Ycr.rn transactions of £216 80 M.

We am requested to Btate that thu Sunday School Anniversary Services of i tho I'reabyturian Ohlirch will b'o conduct!, d 10-roorruw by .the. Rov. Chug. Muriay cf Oartorton at 11 a.m., 8 p.m. mid 7p. 111 Sankov'a Hymns will ba used at all the sorviens. The collections I will do on behalf of fc'ia Sunday School funds. _ Tho Garrison Hall, -Wellington, was lighted by eleatricity on tho occasion of tho pall given in honor of Hor Majesty, by Mayor Jolin Duthie, to tho citizens of VVollington, on tho Queen's birthday. His lExcollcn&y the tiovemoraud Lady Onslow wore present-. TIIO whole nffur iFiuij a bi-iliinnt success.

1 will ba suen that tho firat carnival oi Liu ncason will ba hold at tho Theatre JUnal Uiii': on Thursday evening neit, •'Wth inst. Thero will bo an additional iiuvoUyiatlio fact that tho r hikers wil 1 »«r wuakii or dominoti till 9.30. Mr baud which baa been groaMy uugmunlod, and uumhera clouci on twenty of tho beat perfcrmora in tbi> (Jiatrict. \vil.. play some choice selocfcionH, and ii» tiii« will bo fcopt up till oloven •/dock. Wo rocord with regrot the death at his'rcaiduncc, Silvorstream, on 24tli iiiet. "f Mr Thomas Cotter J. P. Mr Cotter ii'an an old rcnident in tha Hutt Valley, whero he had lived foi nearly twenty .yunrs. Tha calm oi death was cancer, trom which deceaaodbad ouffuxed grvaily fop eoinc titue. It will be remembered by our readers that the Jate Mr Colter visited Sydney recently with 1 view to j seat the powers of " German Charlie" bir. roturnad without having been oeaeby him. UQcoaaccl leavea a wife and air children to mourn their ioss.

i-ti Boitio there ara BO cardinals, 30 biuhopa, 1469 prießte, 2210 nuna, and 3UOO raonkß* fratrs, zandidate?, etc. Tha Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society coueita n? 0100 members with a total capita] of £72,000. Tho hurricane which passed c-ver Samoa on March 13th did great damage. A,t Nim, odb of iho Savage Islands, 67£* houses, throa churches, two Hohoolhoueua and about 2000 cocoannt trees woru destroyed. Deai\—A. Pereon curi:d of Deafness A\iCi noises in the head of 23 years' standisig by a Staple Itoiuedy, will send a ,W;ript;on of it rutsis to any Panon who applies to Niuuulson, Wilftamatrect, Al olboUrno,

i Few people ouisiflG the Sargo eircteof our •iufitop.ic-rs have uny ati&qu.ite idua of the immense etock wc have always on hanfl of /jojiVrj/ Ruitable for all Heaaona, and morn < specially for the presont one at Te Aro .■Ji'Nscj, "Wellington. liven the many thousands ol our frond* 7iji>lja7o steadily supported us in this dr>arimcnt for many ye&ra paat would bi: tinoiuahud, lo laarii that wo never have luss in<l sometimes much moro» thus 2- c .<;uU )airs of i/oae o£ zvwy description* aihtpunl or children, youny ladies ;.ml hitiicM ,« Tc kio Houan, Wellington. And not only is the quautity thus cxlanih'fl, but the selection is e&oaliunt and varied, and the quality in all thai couid kit* jdesired, The value, too, is unrivaltad. quality into nconum, theco is no place where cheaper Hontevff is to bu obtainoti ihan at To Aro Houbo. WellijJKtou. To accomplish all these deßirabie encU, in providing quality, variety, value, And cheapness, vy.« procure our Hoiwry from the bout luanufttcSurerß in England and Soliumrtud clficwl-ero {makiTH utinifa arc unr,w.<. mn'jf and itttiitfelliffibic to the tiinerai and thud ««t»uro at all times tht? bout niab.TK and tho best valuti in J,adieu mid Children //afealTo Ato House, Wellington*— Ai>vt. ,S IiOOOH o?f I'lLKtf Why suiter Piles? Immediate cowplota cure guaranteed. Ask fo y Rough on Pilcn," Sure euro for itch iny, protruding, bleeding, or any foivnn Piles, WKI2f)#Y MBN hoL-lfch and vigor, cures Dy:\pcp ia, Im, potenco. Sexual DVoiJity. At chwniata and druggiata. Jicinptbortiu, Ptofii>ori Co, Wollini/toci-