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Show NIRDEKOIS W R E IT E IIS . I A Tale ot Horror. 1 Halifax, 23. A vessel commanded I by C-iptaio Ridout was lost on the i French shore ef Newfoundland in i '74. A St. Johns paper says a person from Bonne bay relates the following: The captain had $1,000 on his person 1 at the time the craft went ashore, i near a hut occupied by an old hunter known aa "Jacks." All of the crew got ashore and built a tent, A certain : Boune bay wrecker, with members of his family, visited the tent and ollered to pilot ttie erew to the channel. chan-nel. Tho offer was accepted, and while the party were crossing the pond members of the crew shot, three hilling at ihe first volley. The wreck ers cut a hole in tha ice and put the bodies down after robbing them. Jacks, aware of the circumstance, circum-stance, was brought over, hut becoming sick confessed. The informant also says that a Nova Scotian craft fishing there found the remains of the cap tain fearfully mangled, under a rock on shore. The people are confident that the crew were all murdered by the same gang. Many other vessels and crews, he believes, mat the same fate. He further states tuat the people at Port Auport do little else than plunder, and in his opinion would not hesitate to ue lightu lode-coy lode-coy vessels on shore. The matter has been placed in the hand of the chief of police of St. Johns to investigate. It is said the officers of her majesty's steamer Eclipse, now visiting the shore, will be direoted to seek in tor-mat tor-mat ion relative to the crimes. |