A Negro's Crime.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7916, 4 September 1905, Page 4

A Negro's Crime.

The detailed account oi the tragedy on board a trading boat off the Honduras coast tarnishes a terrible j picture oi human butchery. Twelve | people were murdered in cold blood, and the only survivor was a girl of twenty. It is slated that the negro, whose name is M'Uill, who committed the crimes secreted himself on board the schooner, and at sea made his way to the deck, where lie killed several of the i.rew with a magazine revolver or crowbar. Then he raised an alarm, and waited patiently at' ihe gangway, shooting every person who ascendid. Several, including the woman and child, he murdered in their bunks. For Miss Morgan the wretch evidently reserved a fate worse ihati death. He scuttled the ship and then made the girl enter a boat. ! Miss Morgan still retained her presence of niind, and resolved to fight for liberty. She took up an oar t-o i defend (herself. Immediately the negro shot her, the bullet striking her in the arm. She jumped overboard dnd swam away, whereupon the ni gro took the oar and struck her a stunning blow on the head. She fell back, and while keeping her nose above the water was able to give the murderer the impression she was dead. He rowed away, and she swam ashore, and was found in a small wood almost naked, and nearly mad with suffering. When she recovered she told the story, and the infuriated people organised a search for the negro, who was discovered in hiding two days later. President. Houilla has (says the Telegraph's correspondent) promised that M'Uill shall d.e in torture in the presence of the entire town.