RANGITIKEI - NEW ZEALAND
1891
PETITION FOR THE PARDON OF WALTER TRICKER
To His Excellency, The Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, K.G.C.M.G etc etc
May it please your Excellency
Whereas Walter Tricker, now residing near Bulls in Rangitikei, was in 1863 sentenced to death for the murder of Robert Stillingfleet Rayner near Bulls, and whereas on account of such a large number of his fellow men believing him to be perfectly innocent of the crime and constantly petitioning the Government for his release, his sentence was at first commuted, and owing to further petitions, he was after 6˝ years imprisonment allowed to go out of gaol, by simply opening the door of the prison and allowing him to walk out. He really, in the eyes of the law being still a prisoner and under Police surveillance.
We the undersigned firmly believing in his innocence and considering his case one of those unfortunate miscarriages of justice which it is never too late to rectify, now approach Your Excellency and trust that you will see fit in your clemency to grant a free and unconditional pardon to the said Walter Tricker.
Since he was allowed to go out of gaol his conduct as a settler has been exemplary and he is universally respected by all with whom he has been brought into contract, fully bearing out the very keen feeling that he was perfectly innocent of the fearful crime of which he was brought in guilty.
He is now 69 years of age and has a family around him, and by his d* energy and hard work, had made his farm of value and your petitioners now pray your Excellency will be gracious, please grant Walter Tricker a free pardon, and enable him to deal with his property as he likes (which by years of honest straightforward hard work he has brought into a state of excellent order), and carry out an act of justice to which we all deeply feel he is undoubtedly entitled.
And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray..
Signed.
The original petition and signatures are at the end of this table - any help with the ?'s would be most appreciated.
| Edward Gorton J.P | John Stevens J.P |
| James Dowd?, Minister | Alexander Winks Jnr |
| Thomas Bennett J.P | Percy |
| Daniel Fraser | Malcolm Walker |
| John Taylor Dalrymple J.P | James Johnston |
| James Glenny Wilson M.H.R | John McKelvie |
| Stephen Fagan (Chairman of Town Board) | R Mackett J.P |
| Thomas Turner Richardson | Alfred Dick |
| Alexander McDonell | John Freeman Sicely |
| John Bryce Ralston | Sydney Skerman J.P |
| Geoffrey Potts | W Melton ? |
| Fredrick T Costall | H ? Mitchell |
| Daniel Coughlin | ? |
| John Jordan | Francis Phillips Kellow |
| David Scott | Joseph Northover |
| William Askew Doughty | Richard Saunders |
| Robert Bruce McKenzie J.P | Nicholas Andrew |
| Sidney Knight Richards | James R Simpson J.P |
| Richard Hammond | Alexander Simpson |
| George Wheeler | George Frederick Phippen |
| Charles Scales | Joseph Dawbin |
| John Stevenson | Frederick Webb |
| A?? Gill ? | Charles William Maclean |
| William Kendrick | Charles Grose ? |
| Thomas Winks | Charles Blackwell |
| Douglas Cowper Tennent | James McHardie |
| Herbert Vernon Hammond | E ?? Newell ?? |
| ? | Charles Edmund Nicholas |
| Charles Thoms | William Bryan |
| Robert Kirkpatrick Simpson | Willliam Frecklington |
| James Howard | W Taylor |
| Henry Henderson | John Willcocks |
| William Cawood | Andrew Thomson |
| ? Maugham - Maighan ?? | Thomas William Downes |
| Andrew Morrison | Mara Ku Matahiwi |
| Charles Mace Galpin | Frederick J Mansell |
| Samuel Cawood | Charles Henry Hinkley Jnr |
| Gottlieb Goebel | Warena Hunia |
| Henry Emens | William Meehan |
| John Williams Marshall (Chairman Rangitikei County Council) | James Alexander Gray |
| James Coombe | William Howard |
| Samuel Gibbons | William Henry Taylor |
| John Bowen | William Hayward |
| John Bowen Jnr | John Gordon |
| Henry Wisdom | W N Wilson |
| Thomas Coleman | Joseph Gomez |
| Frederick Whitlock | A McDonald |
| John Hammond | Samuel Hastead Amon |
| Robert Johnston | William Wingfield |
| Thomas Atkinson | David Button |
| Duncan Campion | F Hammond |
| Robert Lyon Snr. | W Smith |
| John McCartney | S Andrew |
| John Burne | W Green |
| Thomas William Downs | Ed Wood |
| Charles Page | Edward Harry Levett |
| Thomas Flower | Thomas King |
| James Paulin | William Cole |
| William Ellery | Edwin Fowell |
| Ka ??? Mc??? | Agnes Ellery |
| Thomas McGregor | Thurza Ellery |
| Edgar ? | Elizabeth Ann Winks |
| John Ellery | Charles N Rowe |
| William Brookie | ? |
| Frederick John Knox | Hugh Ross |
| Henry Sanson J.P | John Hempseed |
| ? Abraham J.P | Tom McKenzie |
| John Saxon | H Hammond |
| Robert John Stuckey J.P | Charles Hunt |
| Stephen Milner | Alexander McDonell |
| A C? | Peter Stewart |
| Fredrick Rich | Alfred Blew |
| James Pask | John Alexander Richardson |
| J A Bailey | Robert Kilgour |
| W Jenkins | Robert Bernard Kilgour |
| Charles Ellery | John Frecklington |
| George Edmund Wastney | John Gray |
| John Green | Andrew Doughty |
| Thomas Ellery | Duncan McKenzie |
| James Bowater | Henry Doughty |
| Douglas Hastings Macarthur M.H.R | William Roberts |
| George Farmer | Wiremu Ratana |
| Henry Paul | Thomas Wilson J.P |
| George Glover | James Kilgour |
| William James Paulin | James Osborne Lilly |
| Hare Reweti Rongorongo | William Hammond (York Farm) |
| Heremaia Te Rangi?? | Amelia Hammond (York Farm) |
| Valerie Tinia ? | Robert Kirkpatrick Simpson Jnr. |
| Josiah Taylor | Arthur Amon |
| Frederick Thorby | Barnard Strode Penny |
| George Signal | William Henry Stanway |
| Henry Signal | James Risk |
| George Richardson | Thomas Lambess |
| M A? Ellery | William J Phillips |
| William Fergusson | John Burne |
| Thomas Masters | |
| John Wright Gower | |
| Thomas Higgie | |
| Robert Perrett | |
| H? Joll | |
| James Bull J.P | |
| Charles Bull J.P | |
| William Rowe | |
| William Parkes | |
| James A Magee | |
| Charles Edward Levien | |
| A H???ell | |
| B Hislop ? | |
| J Gray | |
| Alexander McNeale ? | |
| F Howard | |
| John George | |
| James Follett | |
| George Whale | |
| G Thorby | |
| Charles Ellery | |
| Ewin Wicks | |
| W Lewis ? | |
| Charles Woolford | |
| John Munro | |
| C Hinkley | |
| Sarah Hammond (Her mark) | |
| William Saywell | |
| William Stevens | |
| Thomas Dixon | |
| John Simpson | |
| James Rolls ? | |
| John Richard Neal | |
| Frear Bipecn (Franz Beren?) | |
| Thomas Wareham |
Unfortunately the copy I have of this petition cuts off the last name in the left hand column.
FAMILIES I AM RESEARCHING | MISCELLANEOUS GENEALOGICAL STUFF | NEW ZEALAND — ON LINE GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY RESOURCES | NEW ZEALAND — YOUNG BOY IMMIGRANT SCHEME 1911 — 1914 | NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS AND TRAGEDIES | NEW ZEALAND MISCELLANEOUS GENEALOGICAL INDEXES | NEW ZEALAND LAND WARS — MISCELLANEOUS GENEALOGICAL INDEXES | NEW ZEALAND AND WORLD WAR ONE | NEW ZEALAND AND WORLD WAR TWO | NEW ZEALAND ROLLS OF HONOUR AND WAR MEMORIALS — BY LOCATION | NEW ZEALAND ROLLS OF HONOUR AND WAR MEMORIALS — BY CONFLICT | NEW ZEALAND ROLLS OF HONOUR — MILITARY NURSES | PAKEHA/MAORI TRANSLITERATIONS | PASSENGER LISTS TO NEW ZEALAND | SHAND — FAMILY HISTORY | SOUTH TARANAKI, NEW ZEALAND — GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES | SPONDON, DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND — GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES | WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL 1865 — 1947 | WESTERN BAY OF PLENTY, NEW ZEALAND — GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES