SAVAGERY IN SOLOMONS
WHITE MAN KILLED NATIVES SACRIFICE CHINESE By Cable. — PrC33 AS3odati‘u\ —Copyright | SYDNEY, Sunday. The manager of a plantation in the Solomon Islands, Mr. Lynch, who has arrived in Sydney, reports that a native, in revenge for a beating he had received, attacked Mr. J. L. Cameron, a planter’s assistant, and after render :ing him unconscious with a stone, dispatched him with a tomahawk. Later the murderer’s remains were found hanging by a rope from a small boat in a creek. The lower portion of the body had been devoured by crocodiles. Mr. Lynch also said some Chinese had been murdered as a sacrifice by a tribe of natives. The murderers were later captured, and one of them had already been hanged. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 165, 3 October 1927, Page 1
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