THE CONDEMNED NATIVES.
On leaving the court-room on Thursday, the Maoris were conveyed to the Stockade in the vans in which they had come, and on arrival at the Stockade their hair was cut and they were shaved. The four men condemned for Volkner's murder are in separate cells, close to that occupied by Stack. Penelito, the boy recommended to mercy, wept bitterly nearly all day yesterday. The twenty-five men from Whakalane are in the new gaol, and are lodged four or five in a cell, the Protestants and Catholics having been separated for convenience of visitation by their respective clergymen, The prisoners told Mr. George Graham, after they had received their sentence, that they would starve themselves to death. That gentleman represented to them the great sin of such a proceeding. They then said that they would write to the Governor, and this wish has also been expressed by Mokomoko and the other murderers of Mr. Volkner. They have asked that tobacco should be allowed them, which, we believe, will be done.
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New Zealander, Volume XXIV, Issue 2618, 7 April 1866, Page 3
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173THE CONDEMNED NATIVES. New Zealander, Volume XXIV, Issue 2618, 7 April 1866, Page 3
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