THE GREAT BARRIER TRAGEDY.
REPORTED ARREST OF CAFFREY. PENN SBEN IN SYDNEY!) [BY TELKBRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Monday. The police authorities have received information of the arrest in New South Wales of a man answering to Caffrey's description, with the exception of certain tattoo marks on the breast. The Sydney police consider the wreck of the Sovereign of the . Seas to hare been brought about purposely by Penn and Caffrey, so as to favour the notion that her occupants were drowned. It is also believed that Penn has been seen alive in Sydney. Nothing is said about the woman known to have been on board when the vessel left Auckland. On inquiry at the police station late last night we were informed by Superintendent Thomson that he had received no intimation of any arrest having been effected by the New Sooth Wales polios in connection with the murders at the Great Barrier, and that since the cable message announcing the wreck of the Sovereign of the Seas he had received no communication from the Sydney polioe authorities. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7760, 5 October 1886, Page 5
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176THE GREAT BARRIER TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7760, 5 October 1886, Page 5
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