ESCAPED FROM TAMASESE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 44, 24 August 1889, Page 2

ESCAPED FROM TAMASESE.

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L TWO WBggpy KfLLtD. riltagi **es**i • *W|<rf Waists**, woflk CElMrlWi, onid aad sailed tr Kfcftaia Kooning, arrived off th* ril MMfe Jano last for trodlagpurposst Ko kad oa board, bar oftir, Oaptaii gimi t> tMi-bo#i la Many; *' ■alffts, ft trad** Iran Mum ; * raw ■hsMra ft* " Okarlie." who rated ft ■ho abi*f «AmT Of th* TOSS*!, MM ■mmi! —llfft. A*eoon m thovesse ■■ it 1111 the aaUeos of MalnyU Mia. ■4 ftftfftwftUy wfek the intention m ■ijftiiftf. Ft* this parrs** they hat f tk* "ruo." eo lo speak, of the .hip ■ tk* eapteia believing they won ■ friondly indiced This waa not thi ■ «N however, for, watching an.oppor ■ tastily, Um lavage* mad* a during at ■ tempt to tako the vessel. Tl.o attack I was so andd«n that tboas on U'.ard H wsre unprepared foe it and before anyH thing ooald ha dono two of thair aum< Hbar wora killed in a moat ■ cold • bloodad mannor. Thess B war* Charlie, thaebiaf oflber, who wai ■ ahot down daad on dack with hi« own m revolver, which ho ha J oaroleesjy laid aside, and Mr. Ocop*r tho trader, who waa mortally woandod by a blow from u tomahawk, aarriad by *«oiher«avugo. i Mr. Kaariog, thaunly other whi'e man oa board waa also attacked, but with tho assistance of tho native portion of - his crew, who fought splendidly, he aaasasded in driving the savagos off kia ahip and want to aea immediately. la tko engagement 12 of tho savages war* ahot dow> by the ship's people asvoral others wouud«i. Mr. Keating resetted a nasty wound ou the skoulder wh*n making hi* way to thecabiii for tho weapons of defence. Several of the " bojr*" bolouging to the vosael war* also badly wounded. The Saro arrived safely at Howlah on June 27, and tho bodies of poor Cooper and tho chief ndsoor war* landed and interred. Mr. Keating, at but accounts, waa reported to be doing as well as oonld be expected Upon rotaapt of the news of the maesacre the schooner AUutroes, owned Mr. J.ibu Williams, of Sydney, to whom we are indebted fur the above ' particulars, prnoaedoil to Marau and secured tike trade aud effoota belonging ■oa the unfortunate trader Cooper. Deoeesod waa wall liked among* tho J&aropoan residents of this group. Ha was a son of Mr. Coper, of Sydenham, England.