A Romance of the Sea.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 38, 1 September 1883, Page 3

A Romance of the Sea.

A curious tale of the sea is reported from KwiTaeh<;e. i>oinc. time ago an Italian ship while off the Andsunnns picked uj) three men in a very exhausted state, one being qu.tr» ins<M>«ible. Ther were taken to Liverpool, and thence to London, where they tou.nl aa asvlura in the Strangers' Flume, and received very kind treatment. They stated that they were fishermen from Kurrachue, and than about eight months a<ro tht-y went out of the harbour at that port on a rait, and remained fishing tor about an hour, when a violent storm carried them out to sea, so that for ?5 days they w^re left to the mercy of the waves, the only food they had bein<> fish caught daily. After a stay of three months in London th^y were sent to Bombay, and handed over to the police, who made enquiries as to the truth of the man's story but without any satisfactory reßult. The meu were then sent on "to Kurrachee under an escort, with instructions from Sir Frank Souter that they were to be set at large if the story proved true. The Kurrachee police enquired into the matter, and within a very short time discovered that the pseudo fishermen were no other than three escaped convicts from Port Blair. It appears that the men, whose names are Loog Tav, a Curmese, Tegla and Jewa, Mahommedanß, with eleven other convicts, escaped on £'3rd July last. The former was convicted about nine years ago of wife murder, and sentenced to eleven years' transportation; the two latter are brothers, and were also convicted of murder, and sentenced to transportation for life. They were sent back c<> Bombay under a proper escort and will be despatched to the Andaraans when the necessary arrangements have been made.