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Show oo "CHIEF" ALFRED SAM IS HELD BY BRITISH New York, Jan. 23. "Chief" Alfred T. Sam, who with a party of about sixty negro followers, sailed from Galveston, Gal-veston, Tex., two years ago on tho steamship Liberia, for the Gold coast of Africa, where he proposed to sot up a negro colony, is ibelng. held by the British authorities in Africa on several charges, chief of which , is manslaughter, according to Mrs William Wil-liam H. Lewis of Galveston, a member of the partj', who arrived here today on the Cymric from Liverpool. On the voyage from Galveston to the Gold coast, which was reached about the middle of November, 1914, several of the passengers and crew of the Liberia died from scurvy, among them Mrs. Lewis' husband. "Upon these deaths is based the charge of manslaughter against "Chief" Sam, according to Mrs. Lewis, who added that the promised reception In Africa had not been arranged and that the natives were apparently hostile. Mrs. Lewis on her arrival in England was deported to this country. |