MURDER IN PAPUA.
I—.— FIENDISH CRIME BY HOSTILE BARBARIANS. A PROSPECTOR'S FATE. By Telegraph—Fre» Awoolatlon— OopjTieM Brisbane, September 2. Details of tlio murder, previously reported from Papua, of a Bottler iiamea Warner, show that Warner was of Gor-man-Amorican descent, and a prominent mineralogist. Ho left Sydney in July last' accompanied by a young man named Windsor, intending to prospect for radium in the interior of Papua. After spending a week with a missionary at.Menapi, he departed, accompanied by three native carriers. At tho end of a couple of days Windsor _became ill. and with ono carrier returned to the nussion, ivliilo Warner pushed forward into unexplored country. • The natives were "hostile and attacked him. Ho defended 'himself till liis revolver jammed; then the natives, using slings, broke his arms', and killed him with spears. They cut off'his arms as trophies and burned tho body, dancing round the fire. The two carriers escaped. A missionary who visited the scene found tho charred remains. A punitive expedition has been dispatched. ■
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1845, 3 September 1913, Page 7
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168MURDER IN PAPUA. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1845, 3 September 1913, Page 7
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