Outrages at Tonga
THE EXECUTIONS.
A correspondent of the Sydney Evening News gives the following account of the executions in Touga : The six men, I am told by an eye witness, were brought up one by one. The first, the one who fired the shot was unable to walk, owing to having been oO long without light, and perhaps food, he had not strength to drag the rivetted gyves through the soft sand to his grave. Jobin, not one of runaway convicts, whose guilt none but those who were in the closed ■court caa know, and whose fetters, as I told you in a former part of this letter, was mercilessly close together, took a long time to arrive at the grave. He wanted to front the executioner, but was not allowed. There was no torture ; all that took place the previous night. They all died without pain. The tops of their heads in some instances were blown clean off. They fell into their graves face downwards. Men have been sent out this morning to dig six more graves, and our petition for mercy having been refused, what more can we whites do? Six more men are, I am told, to be shot to-morrow. .
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 103, 8 March 1887, Page 3
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