[BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Monday Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2177, 22 June 1886, Page 2

[BYB Y TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Monday Night.

A tkkkible murder took place at the Great Barrier on Saturday morning last, the victim being an old man named R. Taylor, farmer, and the murderers, John Cuffrey and Henry Perm, master and mate of the cutter Sovereign of the Seas. It seems that on Saturday morning last Perm went to Taylors house and asked for some butter, Taylor told him he could have some, and asked Perm what cutter he was in. Perm told him it wui tha Levoit (?) Taylor replied, "Oh is it." Caffrey, it is said, then walked in and told Taylor to put his hands up, and fired one chamber of his rerolrer at him, which did not hurt him. Perm then seized Taylor and, it is alleged, held him while C»ffrey fired three more •hots, which killed him, one shot going through the poor man's head. While this tnigic scene was being enacted the other members of the family, which consisted of three women aqd a buy, left the house, and' Perm is repprteid to hay« run put and called ''Mra Taylor back, and threatened to •hoot ; her; if the did not come. He (Penir) then asked where the girls were gone. Mr* Taylor told him they were living at Seymours. "Then," Caffrey is alleged to have replied, " We'll go out there and do for them." They then went out on board the cutter, and tried to get to Seymour's place at Hartaunga, but the wind being unfavourable they could not do so. Meanwhile, Taylor, the son, rode over to Seymour's place with the sad intelligonce, and Seymour started for Tryphena. Previously to this the postman had despatched the cutter Tairua to Coromandel for assistance, but shortly after she started the alleged murderers chased them and the Tairua ran back to Tryphena. On Sunday morning the Tairn.x again started, and brought the news to Sergeant Kist. Taylor was one of the mo^t respectable man on the island. He was a native of Bolton, in Lanc.nhiro. Another telegram from. Oororaandel says that Taylor wns 80 years of age. Qaifrey shot at him fo<ir tiroes' and mimed him, when Perm caught, him by the throat and Caffrey shot him through the he id. It is feared\tb.At the accused men will escape to the Islands as they have gone t» soa. News was taken to C irorn indel in an opsn boat by Mr Seymour, on Saturday night. The crew of the cutter Mahursngi otatorved the Soveteign of the Sets midway between Cape Colvillw and Blind B.iy. She* had three reefs in the mainsail, and both jib and staytuil were hauled down. She was evidently heading for the Cape at the extreme end of the Great Barrier, and Captain Nicholson says he did not think the cutter was bound out to sea, but that she was just dodging off and on. It appears th.it C.iffrey, who lms been visiting the Barrier for many years was once a suitor for the hand of Miss Jane Taylor, daughter of deceased, and now Mrs Seymour. Taylor refused to give his consent to the alliance on the grounds that Caffrey, was a Roman Catholic, whilst he and his family were Protestants. The match was consequently broken off, and it is believed that Caffrey never forgave Taylor for his action. Ho is said to have given way to drink during his last stay in Auckland. He left Auckland on Thursday night. The owners instructed him to proceed.^ Blind Bay and are surprised to learn^th'at he proceeded to Tryphena a point sSVef al miles this side of his destination. Atymt two or three months ago Caffref', when in Auckland, stated that whenever he went to Tryphena, Taylor tantalised him about having lost his daughter, remarking what a good husband she had got, and what a damned wretch of a husband Caffrey would have made her. Caffroy then said that he would not stand this, and threatened that if Taylor did not leave him alone he would "put' a head on him." Superintendent Thompson this evening •en}; the i.s. Rouina with an armed posse of police, a coroner and a surgaon to the Barrier. The alleged murderers carried revolvers.