1/5/2024 0 Comments Cultures northland no babiesRead more about the crime, capture and execution (PapersPast). Winiata was executed at Mt Eden jail on 4 August 1882. Six years later he was captured by Robert Barlow of Ngāti Pikiao, who handed him to the police and earned a £500 reward (equivalent to $84,000 in 2016). His workmate Taurangaka Winiata of Ngāti Mahuta, the prime suspect, escaped to the King Country, where Pākehā authority was not recognised. 1876 The murder of Edwin Packer On 27 January Edwin Packer was murdered on the farm on which he worked in Epsom, Auckland. He is the only New Zealander to have been executed after being convicted of treason. 1869 Executed for treason On 16 November Hamiora Pere was hanged at the Terrace Gaol, Wellington. Three of the gang were hanged, but Sullivan’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after he testified against his accomplices. 1866 The Maungatapu murders On 13 June Philip Levy, Richard Burgess, Thomas Kelly and Joseph Sullivan robbed and murdered John Kempthorne, James Dudley, Felix Mathieu and James de Pontius on the Nelson goldfields (they had killed James Battle the previous day). Jarvey was nevertheless convicted and hanged. The first jury could not agree, and a key scientific expert died of ‘excessive debility and general exhaustion’ on his way to give evidence at the second trial. The crime was reported by their daughter Elizabeth. 1864 The Jarvey poisoning On 26 September ship’s captain William Jarvey poisoned his wife, Catherine Jane, in Dunedin. Collins was the first criminal hanged in New Zealand following the abolition of public hangings by the Execution of Criminals Act 1858. On 1 November Colour-Sergeant James Collins fatally shot Ensign William Alexander in the Rutland Stockade, Whanganui, after the latter insulted him. 1855 James Mackenzie, sheep stealer On 4 March James Mackenzie was found with 1000 sheep stolen from Levels Station, South Canterbury, in the area that was to become known as the Mackenzie Country. Read more and see a newspaper report (PapersPast). He had been convicted of murdering a naval officer, his wife and daughter. 1848 The hanging of Joseph Burns On 17 June, at Devonport, Auckland, Joseph Burns became the first European to be hanged in New Zealand under British law. He had been found guilty of murdering two adults and three children at Motuarohia in November 1841. On 7 March, at Auckland, Maketū Wharetōtara (also known as Wiremu Kīngi Maketū), the son of a Bay of Island chief, Ruhe, became the first person to be executed by hanging in New Zealand. See also a map showing the location of these crimes. For background information on crime in New Zealand, see Te Ara. We welcome comments and suggestions for additional entries, which can be made in the community contributions area at the end of the page. This timeline lists some of the most notable crimes (especially homicides and other acts of violence) involving New Zealanders since 1840.
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