| Show KILLED BY SAVAGES missionary PARTY MURDERED IN AFRICAN FORESTS natives had no gravance gr evance with wh te men but ch ef dec ded to N p poss b I 1 ty of war in the bud minister lyon has reported to the state department from monrovia liberia under date of november ath last the details of the massacre in the depths of an african forest of a white missionary named john 0 G tate with all of his followers follower eighteen in number it appears that the massacre took place as far back as march 15 1901 yet this the first detailed account has just come to hand in an affidavit by mrs mary L alien allen a white missionary at nou non bakrow liberia she has the story from some of the native doo tribes men luen who knew knevi of the killing tate I 1 tad ad a large mission and farm ind nd besides he maintained a consid erable school in the jungle and alto gether nineteen people viere in the mission when it was surrounded in the night by the doo the first man who answered a knock at the door was shot the interpreter n art was shot and as tate appeared and tried to protect the body of the in ter preter he too was shot and cut to pieces 0 the doos then killed all the re remain main ing inmates of the house cat off their hands and placing the bloody members in a coffin sent them back to their people as trophies in ex of their action the doos said we have no fight with the white men but it if we do not kill him now he will bring his country to make war upon us lyon on the strength of this affidavit communicated with the liberian secretary of or state with a view to securing fuller information and perhaps the punishment of the perpetrators of the massacre |
