The long flight of the Auckland yacht thieves recalls (states the “Herald”) the attempt to escape from justice made by John Caffrey, master, and Henry Penn, mate of the cutter Sovereign of the Seas, after the murder of a settler named Robert Taylor, at Tryphena, Great Barrier, on June 19, 1886. The two men, accompanied by a woman, sailed in the cutter for Australia, the vessel being wrecked on that coast. They lived for some time in the bush, but were cubeequent-ly arrested and brought back to Auckland, where the ex tnuae penalty was t
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Southland Times, Issue 19518, 18 May 1922, Page 5
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