AUE!

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1349, 22 June 1911, Page 5

AUE!

THE PASSING OP KAKA. HOW HE MET HIS FATE. s 5 (Pres* Association). Auckland, Yesterday. 1 Tain Kafca, ft r the warder of John ■ freeman at "\Yhaugurei. on April sth, 1 was hawed at Mount E leu Gaol this morning. Just before eight the hangman eutered the couueunied cell and pinioned Kaka's.armsbehind aud the ; momnfnl procession then commeuofid. The Rev. Hawkins read tiie first three santonoes of the burial S2rvice in Maori. Kaka, (tossed iu prisou garb, walked firmly between two warders, ascended the thirteen steps to the EcaffcH, and touk his stand on the drop without assistance or the slightest tremor. Mr Hiwkins recited the Lord's Prayer, which Kaka, iu a steady voice, repeated. Ast6d by the Sheriff if he had anything to say, he replied, firmly: "I hope I am tee list man to be hanged, anyhow I" As the hangman pinioned his feet he said: "Yon are pretty smart at your work." Just before the lever wbb pulled he said: " Aue I" (Farewell). The bolts were withdrawn, a slight tremor of the rope, aud Eaka had paid the full penalty of his orimo 4mtn lsseo alter the time lie left the cell,