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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 142, 23 May 1891, Page 2

' '. ( The Times' Rangoon correspondent says trustworthy detnils of th* deaths of Mr Quiatonand other British officers with him, have been brought to Tamu from Manipur. These unfortunate gentlemen were put to death under circumstances of the'mo»t revolting barbarity. After Mr Quinton's capture, he and two British- ' officers and the bugler, were taken before the Regent, who ordered them to be made over to the Kuki levies to be killed. Mr Quinton was killed with daps, his head being cut off and his body hacked to pieces. His dismembered limbs were then thrown outside the walls to be devoured by pariah dogs. .Mr Grimwood _the political agent, and-two other officers who Were captured, warn shot \>y onlcr Of Lintazinglasp. the-Miniate*, and their .' bodies were cut to pieces and treated as were those of Mr Quinton and his companions. The bodies of two British, - officers, who were killed during the fighting, were also cut to pieces, and thrown outside the city.