MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.
Startling Retribution.
The Prci)B Association has received the following, per To Anau at the BMfl, iiinddr dale of Brisbane, January O . ' : -• • ■ . Tho Swedish schooner Natal, Cap- ; tain- Eustrod, arrived -from., Boston,, reports that on the 27th of, November, the second mate, who was a sou of the captain,.. was washing clothes qn dopk, when he was atfacTfe'd by the -crow, five m number, wounded and thrown overboard. The men then attacked' the captain (who was asleep) with an axe, and shot the mate m the face with a revolver, The captajn, however, seized the gun and went on deck, followed by tho tuate, who had seized a revolver. Four of the crew took re-" fuge m the hold, being afraid of the gun, while tho captain secured tbe'^e-^ maining one, The four remained m tlje hold. four days, When they oame : out the captain blew out tho brains of the few© who actually killed the second mate, and who were the ringleadera m . the rau.tiny. After some days' suffering and hardship, the officers being obliged to watch the three remaining men they fell m with the bai'que Raiffro, from whom they obtained two men to as>ist to navigate the vessel to Brisbane. Tha mutineers have beeu.arreytedj and will be brought to trial on jMday,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 34, 9 January 1884, Page 2
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219MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 34, 9 January 1884, Page 2
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