Show L l LIKE THE DARK AGES t Lf CAPTAIN AND TEN MEMBERS OF 1 CREW OF TRADING VESSEL MURDERED BY SAVAGES t After Pretending Friendliness Ferocious Feroc-ious Natives Slaughter Men and Then Make a Funeral Pyre Out of Their Ship r Victoria B CFurther details of tho massacres In New Britain early lost month briefly reported In Sydney Syd-ney cables received by the steamer Marama on Tuesday are to the effect 41 that Captain Lindsay of the Ketch Rabaul and ton of the crew were murdered and burned and the trading vessel looted and set on fire the bodies of some of the victims thrown Into the flames Captain Lindsay owner and master ti of the vessel and who was prominent I promi-nent In the New Britain trade wax oft the east coast of New Britain about 200 miles from Hebertshone recruiting recruit-ing labor and about sundown when he anchored his ship for the night a swarm of native canoes came oft and the blacks asked that he come ashore as plenty of men were ready to sign on as laborers Captain Lindsay went ashore and was escorted to a big J I native house where about a hundred blacks were gathered 1 As soon as he stepped In he was struck down from behind with a pear and the blacks sprang upon him with knives He fell bleeding from y scores of wounds and was hacked to death The body was then dragged out to the beach by the heels and burned The flotilla o canoes then went off to the Rebaul and the na Uvcfl swarmed aboard One after another an-other tho ten men of the crew were slaughtered Then while they lay Borne dead some mortally wounded on the deck a raid was made on the stores and kerosene poured over the deck and in the holds making the ship a funeral pyre for the murdered men Ship and victims were completely com-pletely destroyed Some natives reported the occurrences occur-rences to the Lonecog which at once steamed for Hebertshone and reported report-ed it A Gorman punltlvo ezpedlton was being prepared when tho Lana cog left the Islands |