He called ‘Captain Kelly for God’s sake don’t leave me,’ before being killed. Kelly saw him ‘cut limb from limb and carried away by the savages!’ Tucker's killer was Riri, acting on chief Te Matahaere's orders.
He urgently requested that Captain Kelly, in the name of God, do not abandon him before being brutally murdered. Meanwhile, Kelly witnessed his companion being mercilessly dismembered and taken away by the savage attackers! The person responsible for Tucker's death was Riri, who acted under Chief Te Matahaere's instructions.