Joseph Burns (murderer)

Joseph Burns (c. 1806 – 17 June 1848) was a New Zealand murderer, born in Liverpool, England.

[1] He was the first European in New Zealand to be executed for a capital crime.

[1] He was hanged on 17 June 1848[2][3] at what later became Devonport, today a suburb of Auckland.

[4] The plaque on the spot of his hanging erroneously states that this was also the place of the murders, and that the crime occurred in 1848.

This New Zealand biographical article related to crime is a stub.

Plaque in Devonport, Auckland, on the spot where Burns was hanged.