TAHI KAKA'S CRIME.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 100, 17 June 1911, Page 6

TAHI KAKA'S CRIME.

TRADES COUNCIL URGES REPRIEVE. (Per Press Association.) Well in gin, June 16. A deputation' from the Trades Counil waited on the Hon. J. Carroll, Acting-Premier, and urged tiie review of Talii Kaka, the Maori youth ..‘jitoncod to death for the murder of tiie gumdiggor Freeman at Puhipuhi. Air. Carroll said the executive in setting aside the jury’s recommendaien to.mercy had the evidence .before horn, together with the,.,,.! mlge’s rgu't, and arrived at its decision after careful deliberation. The strongest ar'iiment in favour of the the reprieve, rid Air. Cairo]], was Kaka’s youth, for the evidence disclosed that the uuuier was deliberate, He had. rpcivod telegrams and petitions from ■ll parts of the Dominion, and the Executive would 4 carefully . consider the inostion this evening. .He could asure the deputation this was a painiil position, for anyone to I>o put in, >ut they h.ad a responsibility to discharge and had to see the law property administered and not deflected from its course unless for very strong reasons’ Ho could assure them his mind vas free from bias, arising from the act that ’no belonged to the race from vliich Kaka sprang. PROTEST AGAINST HANGING. , Alasterton, Juno 16. At-the conclusion of an address deiverod by Professor Aiills, of Alilvaukoo, in Alasterton, to-night, a rc;olulion was passed protesting against the execution of Tahi Kaka, and igainst capital punishment generally.