THE MOUNT RENNIE OUTRAGE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 9

THE MOUNT RENNIE OUTRAGE.

EXECUTION OF FOUR OF THE PRISONERS. (Reutee's Telegbams.)

Sydney, January 7.

The four young men whose sentences for complicity in the outrage on the girl Hicks were not interfered with were hanged in the Darlinghurst Gaol this morning at 9 o'clock, in the presence of 150 persons. Read handed in a written statement declaring the innocence of himself and those who had been reprieved, except Donnellan. There was no demonstration either inside or outside the gaol. With the exception of Boyce, none of the men made any struggle on the scaffold. '

The four men on whom the death penalty has been carried out are William Boyoe, George Read, Joseph Martin, and George Duffy. Boyce was 19 years of age, was born at Redfern, and was a Roman Catholic; Read was 19 years of age, a native of Victoria, and a Presbyterian. Martin was 17 years of age, was born at Waterloo, and a Roman Catholic. Duffy was 17 years of age, born at Dapto, and a Roman Catholic. The five who were reprieved, William Hill, William Newman, Michael Donnellan, Hugh Miller, and George Keegan, all natives of New South Wales, and with' the exception of Hill, are all under 20 years of age.