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CAPTUBE OF PENN AND THE WOMAN.

CAFFBEY MEETS HIS MATCH. Auckland. October 11. Sydney papers per Mariposa state that Caffrey was cleverly captured by Constable Mays while crossing' in a punt from Deep Creek, Bellringer river, where he had been employed painting a bridge. Mays was disguished as a swagsman and said he wanted to have a chat. Caffrey gives Maj s credit for the way he took him completely off his guard. Had he known Mays was a constable he says he would have shot him. Caffrey had determined not to be taken alive. This is the second murderer Mays has arrested. He was formerly in the New Zealand force at Invercargill and then at Dunedin. Detective Tuohy and Constable Mackay leave for Sydney t6 bring back Caffrey, Perm, and Lizzie Graham Tuohy was at the inquest on Taylor, and Mackay is thoroughly acquainted, as a member of the Water Police, with Caffrey. The girl is to be brought to Auckland charged as being, an asßessory after the act. [bEPTRB'B TRI.KGBAMB.I Sydney, October 11. Caffrey arrived from Fearuiount today, heavily ironed. A large crowd of spectators assembled to meet the steamer. The prisoner was brought before the Magistrate on the charge of murdering a settler named Taylor at Great Barrier Island, and was remanded for a week. A man and woman, supposed to be Perm, Caffrey's accomplice, and Lizzie Graham, the woman who was taken from the Barrier Island, havo been arrested at Kempsey Town on the Macleay Eiver, 280 miles north-east of Sydney. Prisoners were brought up at the local court and remanded until to-morrow Received' October 7t 125. 5 p.m. Sydnky, This Day. The man arrested at Kemsey has Admitted he is Perm, and confessed his complicity in the .Great Barrier Island murder, /

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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 52, 12 October 1886, Page 2

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CAPTUBE OF PENN AND THE WOMAN. Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 52, 12 October 1886, Page 2

CAPTUBE OF PENN AND THE WOMAN. Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 52, 12 October 1886, Page 2