A Murderer at Large.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1849, 25 June 1886, Page 2

A Murderer at Large.

That murder of poor inoffensive Mr Taylor b; the miscreant Caffery and his fellow in crime, Penn, at the Great Barrier, was a brutal aud fiendish piece of work. Caffery had courted one of the Taylor girls, and his suit being discouraged, he landed from his vessel with the deliberate intention of murdering the father. Caffery fired one shot of his revolver at Taylor and missed. Then the ruffian Penn appears to have held him fast while Caffery pouted in one shot after another of the revolver into his body aud head, and murdered him. The ruffians then enquired where the girls were, and, being told, departed with the intention of killing them. The whole story reads like a narrative of the doings of a bucoanneer and murderer of the Captain Kidd type. Caffery went off in his vessel with plenty of provisions and arms, evidently intending to resist capture and fight all comers. But the officers of justice are after him in a steamer, and it is earnestly to be hoped that the ruffian will speedily be captured and brought to the gallows.