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Show SHOCKING CRIMES IN SOUTH SEAS Trader on Vessel is Bound With Ropes and Hacked to Pieces With Tomahawks. Captain Penteeatt, an Englishman, Is Thrown Into Shark Infested I Waters, White the Natives Danced With Joy. Victoria, B. C The steamer Mlo-wrt, Mlo-wrt, from Australia, brought news of several South Ben tragedies from the Solomon croup. News was received f a mutiny and murder on tha trading trad-ing outter Save. Vella IjivcII, the blaoi cook, after being refused permission per-mission to go home, suddonly attacked WJlllam Finlason, trader In charge of tho vessel, whose station Is ono of Norman Wheatley's on the Island of Otto, In the Solomon group. Flnlay-sob Flnlay-sob was unarmed, trading with natives na-tives on the schooner's deck, when the craw rushed upon him from behind, be-hind, seized nnd bound him. After Flnln)son had been secured with ropes the natives hacked him to death with tomahawks, no heed being paid by the relentless blacks to his agonizing screams. The body was thrown overboard, After the murder tho natives endeavored to anil the vessel ves-sel to their home Island, but were captured by Captain Olen nnd arrest od. They were taken to Glzo, whlthei II. M. S. Torch went to make nn inves tlgstlon. The natives alleged that the mur derers of Cnptaln fllchnrd Pentecost and six memb'rs of the trader Po trcl, were taken to Noumea. The) were the ringleaders of a party whlcl tied Captain Pentecost to a tree and cast spears Into his body, and while he was still conscious they threw hlir Into shsrk-lnrested waters nnd danced while the monsters tore tho body t pieces. |