New Zealand Prisoners Sentenced to Death - Executed New Zealand People, Lionel Terry, Hamiora Pere, Walter James Bolton (Paperback)

Chapters: Executed New Zealand People, Lionel Terry, Hamiora Pere, Walter James Bolton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edward Lionel Terry (1873-1952) was a New Zealand white supremacist and murderer, incarcerated in psychiatric institutions after murdering a Chinese immigrant, Mr. Joe Kum Yung, in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1905. Edward Lionel Terry was born in Sandwich, Kent, in 1873. He was the son of Edward Terry and Frances Thompson. His father was a prosperous corn merchant in Kent, and later managed Pall Mall Real Estate. Lionel Terry was educated at Merton College in Wimbledon, until he tired of that life, and joined the Royal Regiment Artillery in 1892. After his father secured his discharge in 1895, he became involved in successive itinerant occupations in South Africa, British Columbia, Canada, and the United States in 1895-6, before he finally emigrated to New Zealand in 1901. During his period in Canada and the United States, Terry developed his virulent white supremacist attitudes, which were to have a tragic outcome in his immediate future. In New Zealand, he first worked for the Department of Lands and Survey in Auckland, before he tried to establish a horticultural market garden north of Auckland, in 1901. In 1903, he worked as a Taihape bush feller, north of Palmerston North and Fielding, before recommencing employment with the Department of Lands and Survey as a surveyor, based in Mangonui, Northland, in 1905. Terry gave the first indication that he was a white supremacist when he wrote and privately published The Shadow. A copy of the original is in the State Library of Victoria in Australia (among other sources) and can be read online on that library's webpage. It can be found by going to the search page at . This text d...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5607365