A NEW CUINEA TRAGEDY.
TWO SETTLERS KILLED. liy Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney. January 4. Details have been (received of ithe murder of two brothers named Weber, on Rooke Inland, tierman New Guinea, two months ago. Ernest Weber, who was formerly connected with a German missionary society, severed his connection with the society, visited Germany, and returned a year ago with his wife, child ami brother, and established a trading station (m i 1,,. island. One morning the islanders who were lined up for work attacked and butchered the brothers and a Chinese overseer. ilrs. Weber and the child, who were absent, escaped. Robberv was the object of the murder. The natives looted Weber's house and store.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 194, 6 January 1913, Page 5
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115A NEW CUINEA TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 194, 6 January 1913, Page 5
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