Show HORRIBLE CRIMES GRIMES IN SOUTH SEAS SE S Slit lit Trader on Vessel Hacked to Pieces With Tomahawks Captain Pentecost an Englishman Thrown to the Sharks While the Natives Danced With Joy t I B C Sept 28 The V V steamer from Australia brought news of several South Sea tragedies from the time Solomon group News was received of a mutiny and murder on tIme the trading cutter Save Vella Vello Lavell Laven the black cook after be being beIng ing refused permission to togo go home sud suddenly SUddenly denly attacked William Finlayson trader in charge of the vessel whose who e station is one of Norman on time the island of Gizo Giza in m the Solomon group Finlayson was unarmed trad tradIng ings Ingi with ith natives on the schooners desk deck when the time crew rushed upon him from behind seized and bound him Hacked to Death I After Finlayson Finla son had been secured with ropes roes the natives hacked him to death with tomahawks no heed being paid bj by b the blacks to his agonIzIng agonising screams The body was thrown overboard After the murder the t e natives endeavored to sail the ves yes vessel vessel sel eel to their home borne island but were cap captured captured captured by Captain Olen Oien and arrested arr sted They wore vore taken to Gizo whither H M MS MS S Torch went to make an investigation tion lou French Expedition Attacked From the New e Hebrides news was re ye received of an attack by natives upon a French punitive expedition sent gent to pun punish puni ish i h the blacks for outrageous actions against white settlers and several mur murders murders ders dors at Bullies on island The French warship landed a par lUr party lUrty larty ty of marines who ho at arrested rested three chiefs As the lie pai ty took their captives from the village e a shot s ot tired Hied from am ambush ambush ambush bush killed one ne marine tn line gunner The party then attacked the he village die dis dispersing persing the natives and killing four men The landing party burned the village and returned to the bay whore it was as again fired upon UDon and a marine wounded The de ded d marine was buried at Port Sandwich with military honors Horrible Butchery The natives alleged that time the murder murderers ers era of Captain Richard Pentecost t and six members of the trader Petrel were taken to They were the I ringleaders of a party part which tied Cap Captain i tain tam Pentecost to a tree and cast spoors spears I into his body and while he ho was still I Ic cOnscious c n cious they threw him into shark I infested waters and danced while the monsters tore the body to pieces Typhoon and Tidal Wave Mall Mail advices from the South Seas in included i eluded details of ot a disastrous typhoon and tidal wave 80 in the lie Marshall group causing the loss of about lives A wave nearly six feet ft et high swept the time island of The settlement is on onan onan an nn island about a mile mite long and where the Europeans are gathered is it about yards wide The Time top story of the hotel in which the foreigners lived was war blown off and several had narrow es os escapes escapes capes from falling debris The Time trading steamer Germania was saved from de do destruction by her master taking her into late the center of the lagoon |