Horrible Murder at Suva

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 94, 26 January 1888, Page 2

Horrible Murder at Suva

On December 26, Suva was startled by the news that the infant son of M*s I Clarke, of Nav.ua, book-keeper . te>,-. , ; Messrs Wilson and Murchi had been,. murdered by a Polynesian senrant jrf v -.; the family. Jt ; appears that tjiomurderer js a Miya ; boy, who ias. been „ ' in the colony some, fourteen mon the. , i 5 On thVMo.ad ( ay^ef^ke!d..^g^o^t : 9a^^ the following day to a roeke, , wj^: when leave wasjrefused was heard to " threaten to kill- some one of, his. master's family,' if he was not allowed to go. Being told to returri|!;o his work he went back to his employer's house, ■ armed himself witHia- knife, and coming into the .kitchen struck Mrs • MeFayden, who .was attending Mr» >: Clarke as nurse, a blow on the nape ■ , of the neok. The force; of the blow was broken by th,e way in which t^is^ lady's hair" was dressed,' and litf;te in- ;v .jury was done. The wretch then raft . to Mrs Clarke's room, where she was lying with a joung baby, but meeting ; her little boy some two yearns of - age, ; at '■ the door* inflicted a fearful cut across his head, producing almostimmediate death ; the murderer then •" - escaped to the bash. Three dayß:c:, e'apaed before any reward ws a offered - I for the capture uithe murderer, who! is stillfat large and has been ever liaca; Jr.