A TALE OF MURDER.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 385, 9 April 1902, Page 2

A TALE OF MURDER.

ROBBERY AND DRINK THE CAUSES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigbj London, April 8. A Liverpool man, formerly of the Bush Veldt Carbineers, declares that Morant shot and killed Van Duren on the open veldt, while speaking to him about the murders. Then he reported that he was gallantly killed in action. The officers and men of the Carbineers represented every nationality. The missionary Heese, who started to report about the eight Speloken murders, was shot. The murders totalled thirty and forty. In some instances, the motive was robbery. Others were committed in sheer recklessness through drink. Neither officers nor men were short of whisky.

MANSION HOUSE FUND FOR LOYALIST REFUGEES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, April 8. A Mansion House Fund has been opened at Sir A. Milner’s and Mr Chamberlain’s instance to provide a thousand Johannesburg loyalists, refugee families, with fifty thousand pounds worth of household goods prior to their return, to replace the things looted.

SPIONKOP DETAILS TO BE PUBLISHED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 8. The Government are publishing all despatches relating to the Spionkop affair. Lord Roberts has cabled to Lord Minto, expressing high appreciation of the Canadians, and regret at the losses at Boschbutt.