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Show -SUE IN SOUTH SEAS Trader on Vessel is Bound With Ropes and Hacked to Pieces With Tomahawks. Captain Pentecast, an Englishman, is Thrown Into Shark Infested Waters, While the Natives Danced With Joy. Victoria, B. C. The steamer ,MIo-were, ,MIo-were, from Australia, brought nows of several South Sea tragedies from tho Solomon group. News wns received of a mutiny and murder dn the trading trad-ing cutter Save. Volla Lavcll, the blaok cook, after being refused permission per-mission to go home, suddenly attacked William Flnlayson, trader in charge of tho vessel, whose station is one of Norman Wheatley's-on the Island of GIzo, in the Solomon group. Flnlayson Flnlay-son was unarmed, trading with natives na-tives on the schooner's deck, when tho criw rushed upon him from behind, be-hind, seized and bound him. Aftsr Flnlayson had been secured with ropes the natives hackod him to death with tomahawks, no hood bolng pnld by tho relentless blacks to his agonizing screams. Tho body was thrown overbonrd. After tho murder tho natives endeavored to sail the ves eel to their homo island, but wore captured by Captain Olcn nnd arrest ed. They were taken to GIzo, whlthoi H1. M. S. Torch went to make nn Invoa tlgrttlon. The natives alleged thnt tho murderers mur-derers of Captain Richard Pentecost nnd six members of tho trader Po trol, were taken to Noumea. Thoj were the ringleaders of a party whlcl tied Captain Pentecost to a tree nnd cast spenrs Into his body, and wblK he was still conscious thoy threw hln Into shark-lnfosted wntors nnd danced while tho monsters toro tho body U pieces. |