ATTEMPTED EXECUTION AT FIJI. (From the Fiji Times, June 1st.)

16 July 1872, Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW : 1859 - 1889), page 3

…1. The Man Franks A murderer, recorded as "The Man Franks" in an 1872 copy of an Australian paper , survived his execution thanks to his executioners' great incompetence. He also had the unfortunate distinction of being the first person to be executed in the briefly established Kingdom of Fiji (within two years, debt would drive Fiji to become a colony of Britain).…