A CORRESPONDENT SLAIN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2609, 1 August 1881, Page 3

A CORRESPONDENT SLAIN.

Another* I 'Hero of the Pen,” while faithfully discharging his duty to’his employers and the public, has fallen a victim to the excited passions of a semibarbarous population. M. Seguin, correspondent in Tunis of our French contemporary, “Le Telegraphic,” was attacked by Arabs on May 28, at a few yards distance from the gates of Bejii, while strolling about the outskirts of that town. His assailants pelted him with stones, until he fell prostrate and stunned on the earth, and then stabbed him with their yataghans, indicting upon him eight wounds, to which he succumbed on the following morning. M. Seguin supported a painful operation with heroic fortitude, and met his death as a gallant should, calmly and resolutely. As might have been expected, great exasperation has been excited iu the French camp by so unprovoked and cold-blooded a murder, committed upon the person of a noncombatant, attached to the military expedition in an unofficial and altogether inoffensive capacity. M. Soguin’s assassins, who were promptly seized and handed over to the French authorities, appear to have at once been tried before a drumhead court-n artial, and to have had a short shrift.— 11 European Mail.”