THE WAIWERA TRAGEDY.
, — i — EXECUTION OF Tfl£ MURDERER. United Preia A»sooiation— Bj Electric Telegraph — Copyright. (Received July 13, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. John Sullivan iras hanged at Pentonyilla for the murder of a boy on board the New Zealand tfading steamer Wai-wera. (Jolm Sullivan, aged fotty, a seaman on j the Warwrera, -was charged vfiih having | murdered 'Denis Roifrthan, aged etventeen, a deck boy, between Monte Video- ana Teneriffe. It -was alleged that he struck the lad Urd terrible blows on the head. At the preliminary trial in the Thames Police' Court a letter -was read addressed to a member of the erev, prior to Ba>wtlian's deMh, b«t- Hot ddiv«€d, wherein Sullivan charged 'Rovthtm -wipi ingratitud© and described UiA Y$ ft th^f and- a liar. Me added tha|> h© intended to kill him and then dbmmit suicide. On June 24 Sullivan •was found guilty of ths murder of Bow-; than and" sentenced to death, two jurymen recommending him to mercy owing to pro< vocation.) ' .:■,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8061, 13 July 1904, Page 2
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