MURDERS AT SEA.
’(Per R.M.S. Sierra at Auckland.) San Fianoisco, July 20. A telegram from New Orleans, dated July 12, describes a peculiarly bloody crime of the seas. Oo June 30 the schooner Olympia was off the Honduras coast, ten ■ miles from the port of Cieba. Thirteen persons were aboard. Robert McGill, a negro sailor, knew the captain had a la-ge sum of money .on board, 760 dollars, and attempted to escape with it. He killed the captain, and the shot aroused the men. He went on deck and shot the men one by one as thoy came up. There were two women aboard, and these he dragged into a dory with him. He then shot Mrs Rose and shot at MUs Morgan. The girl was not much hurt, and jumped overboard. The negro called to her to return, saying he would not harm her. Fearing her strength would not hold out, the girl swam to the dory. Tho negro then struck her a terrible blow, and she pretended to be dead. Floating with only her nose out the water, she managed to reach ao island where the inhabitants found and cared for her. Search parties captured the negro, and be was sentonced to deaih by torture.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1528, 9 August 1905, Page 3
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