AN UNFORTUNATE MAN.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 182, 21 December 1881, Page 2

AN UNFORTUNATE MAN.

! .Efts&^jft, Small used to sing " The Uttfettußat^^anv'-aiid'if^he; were ; alire, tp-day, and. bad,, tbei' pleasure •fj Mr, r PiuWtter's'a^uaintancje^w^ad^fckon 1 him as one, although' not m,, the fame; class, as the hero of ; &# song. Tefegranja, from Auckland state that he f has! been, committed for 'trial on two charges of; sending threatening letters, and three .of burglary. The record of his life is" a/, series of .crime, and although highly cd.ii; catejj anaVwell connected, he seems' to' to tfenk fee /wa* bom.for no end ; tb|an tb ! pass the greater part of his exjstenpe, m patsing from the prisoner's dock to the couvict's cell. Bui although he enters the gaol, as it were, voluntarily, • pnce. theiijß) he is jus^; as arixitos to get but - again, as half a dozen times he proved to% r nl»iteepetC(ltiß ardwftasff^St^ c k1 *?" tpmania, and, those who. cnUcJM.-his: weaknesi should pity atf welbas Condemn, irijemfmber. the^sad^f^teojf anther vn-for-tufiategthew waipreaenf to court when.lie. lentenceaiii Ms*?gs, j&JW iM eh , *t&s!sß him;, gi^wejjjknes& w^ an ungovernable temj«jr,^#«n,,assaultefpt hjm tp gaol tor. three monthfla But the . punishment instead of noalk^ng^ himj^tteniiadfajsotttrary e%c{, and re-; peated iDsub6rdiqatioi?s found;, him at endqf apenVyeara r^* w % caainß. He f became desperate arnddetermme^. to, ! murder the Governor m order as h% de-t clared to see. the sweet, light of .liberty aud - look.upo^^fr^.m^n, other thanhis gaolers^ With this end m view he secured a. spoon, [ and with the Jend sharpened as a «u/e/

|he Btabbed . the QorfrnoT, the injuries luckily not proTingl I wat m court^ I siy r an*l.i»ever wilt forget the ) reophi of cniieJUei w|Sch he ckdarcdlie b^en ■übiecteft^iid eren his.statement iwas^^iittlew^t^theofßciaLiwert ■forcedtoadmit. fie wat found griilty, Nith* strong reeMMßen Aation to mtrcy. Rjbttt\when askcdiby ttie judge if lie had to. iay why th» dietyl sentence law should not be pittsed upon hm», what wai fcii reply: 4^MyLord> %W» inmt the Lpr»jer of'aajonfbrtunite wretch, pay no. kthe_i^com|n«ndßjipn,^,inprcy 1 heUeve ltwaf IHndlf raewils *nd J; I thank you, but, gentlemen, it woyW only be prolonging Of cpurse, the recommendattoa was ; forwarded; ltd the. Executive and ho* was tent back; | for life to. the mercy of his murderers.. ■■ The case 1 created a, tenc^tkm, at the wan- ' and haggard wretch., took a last look a^. his ( fellpw, «r^a'tor«s- with, hearts, and hit fat^et' having a c gjeajt j^flpen^ .wj^hi, Home Govepmeat, he gp(; a Sre^pardoa, on coriaitioii h^w^uld. gahpflQe^ ; Mpgey, Sndipia^age were given him,^hut th^very. I evefitag bafore hw libe^atiohj, one of the, ; w^rdensitaunt£drhAni n to su.ch.a degree that! ihis fury knew^no bounds, ' his shovel .ww^ raised, and the neit moment' bis tonjken-] tor •'- was lymg 1 with b4s head sp]Uit QptSj rSiieied Ittell the eequeli I «»w-hijn.pnjce again t m. the dock,, - and ; h)B left it, only fyiL t|je. r cond«mned cell, th,at for theseiiffold ; .and 1 . :thoa ended the; earthly ciir^er'of JkMBS ;Tl^wi^r^CQvered{ 'and was pensioned byrthe.Q^vernment, but^ which' w the greater, murderer. < When Jbkislwewied life wa^.stwngled, and . his spirit went, to^his final account, may ire hope, m the languagei>f the poet, that, the Kecordinc: r Siget;dropped a tear -oa the Book of, Lifertrifwaihed.out tbe o jfecor^ofjbis n^sidet dsj,' /; ' •",- • "' ?"'