HEAD HUNTERS’ HUMAN.
SAVAGES DECAPITATE ESCAPED PRISONERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, May 23. A sensational story comes from Meruke, Dutch New Guinea. Two hundred prisoners came from Sumatra to carry out road-making. Thirteen escaped into the bush. They fell into the hands of the natives, including Tugar’s head hunters. Each prisoner as captured was decapitated, aud the heads carried off as trophies.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 424, 24 May 1902, Page 2
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