FIVE MISSIONARIES MURDERED
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Thursday Island, April 21
The Governor Resident received a letter from New Guinea stating than the crew of the schooner Dido report a murder by New Guinea Natives of a well-known missionary, Rev James Chalmers, and Rev 0. F. Tomkies, another missionary recently arrived from England at Debo, at the mouth of the Fly river. The missionaries went ashore after being warned that a native fight was progressing. The natives killed Chalmers and Tomkies, then all the boys belonging to their mission school. Bob, the captain of the missionary schooner Miue, from the vessel saw the bodies lying on the beach with their heads cut off, but ho dared not land. He sailed for Dora Island from where the news was forwarded. A native missionary confirms the mur - ders from another sourso.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 April 1901, Page 4
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138FIVE MISSIONARIES MURDERED Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 April 1901, Page 4
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